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diff --git a/chapterhouse-dune b/chapterhouse-dune new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0d83e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/chapterhouse-dune @@ -0,0 +1,294 @@ +Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. + + -- Bene Gesserit Coda +% +When I set out to lead humanity along my Golden Path I promised a lesson their +bones would remember. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even +while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, +conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil +and violence. + + -- Leto II, the God Emperor +% +The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can +terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such +demands. "I already know the important things!" we say. Then Changer comes +and throws our old ideas away. + + -- The Zensufi Master +% +Rules build up fortifications behind which small minds create satrapies. +A perilous state of affairs in the best of times, disastrous during crises. + + -- Bene Gesserit Coda +% +We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose. + + -- Bene Gesserit Coda +% +You cannot know history unless you know how leaders move with its currents. +Every leader requires outsiders to perpetuate his leadership. Examine my +career: I was leader and outsider. Do not assume I merely created a +Church-State. That was my function as leader and I copied historical models. +Barbaric arts of my time reveal me as outsider. Favorite poetry: epics. +Popular dramatic ideal: heroism. Dances: wildly abandoned. +Stimulants to make people sense what I took from them. What did I take? +The right to choose a role in history. + + -- Leto II (The Tyrant): Vether Bebe Translation +% +You cannot manipulate a marionette with only one string. + + -- The Zensunni Whip +% +Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. +The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game +whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, +you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. +Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They +refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. + + -- Darwi Odrade +% +All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological +personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the +corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a +condition to which they are quickly addicted. + + -- Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto) +% +The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical +accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. + + -- The Bashar Teg +% +Corruption wears infinite disguises. + + -- Tleilaxu Thu-zen +% +Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined +only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles +reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition. + + -- Mentat Text One (decto) +% +Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them +intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that +you become totally ignorant. + + -- Mentat Text Two (dicto) +% +Religion (emulation of adults by the child) encysts past mythologies: guesses, +hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, pronouncements made in search of +personal power, all mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always an +unspoken commandment: Thou shalt not question! We break that commandment +daily in the harnessing of human imagination to our deepest creativity. + + -- Bene Gesserit Credo +% +Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine +point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job +security. + + -- Bene Gesserit Coda +% +We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of +consequences -- the tracks of the beast in its forest. Look behind our words +and you see the broad sweep of social behavior that no historian has ever +touched. + + -- Bene Gesserit Panoplia Propheticus +% +They say Mother Superior can disregard nothing -- a meaningless aphorism +until you grasp its other significance: I am the servant of all my Sisters. +They watch their servant with critical eyes. I cannot spend too much time on +generalities nor on trivia. Mother Superior must display insightful action +else a sense of disquiet penetrates to the farthest corners of our order. + + -- Darwi Odrade +% +All states are abstractions. + + -- Octun Politicus, BG Archives +% +Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than +dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift +them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. + + -- Alma Mavis Taraza +% +To know a thing well, know its limits. +Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen. + -- The Amtal Rule + +Do not depend only on theory if your life is at stake. + -- Bene Gesserit Commentary +% +Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous +form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. +The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with +dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary. + + -- Mentat Fixe (adacto) +% +Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes +even though a need is clearly seen. + + -- Darwi Odrade +% +Time does not count itself. You have only to look at a circle and this is +apparent. + + -- Leto II (The Tyrant) +% +A major concept guides the Missionaria Protectiva: Purposeful +instruction of the masses. This is firmly seated in our belief +that the aim of argument should be to change the nature of truth. +In such matters, we prefer the use of power rather than force. + + -- The Coda +% +The best art imitates life in a compelling way. If it imitates a dream, it +must be a dream of life. Otherwise, there is no place where we can connect. +Our plugs don't fit. + + -- Darwi Odrade +% +Uproot your questions from their ground and the dangling roots will be seen. +More questions! + + -- Mentat Zensufi +% +Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating +disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the +worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, +there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required. + + -- The Coda +% +Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. +Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends +to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. + + -- Darwi Odrade +% +No sweeteners will cloak some forms of bitterness. +If it tastes bitter, spit it out. +That's what our earliest ancestors did. + + -- The Coda +% +Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. +Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) +are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics accept +you as god-inspired. This has long been the barrier to science assuming +a mantle of divine revelation. Science is so obviously manmade. +Fanatics (and many are fanatic on one subject or another) must know where +you stand, but more important, must recognize who whispers in your ear. + + -- Missionaria Protectiva, Primary Teaching +% +We walk a delicate line, perpetuating Atreides (Siona) genes in our population +because that hides us from prescience. We carry the Kwisatz Haderach in that +bag! Willfulness created Muad'Dib. Prophets make predictions come true! +Will we ever again dare ignore our Tao sense and cater to a culture that hates +chance and begs for prophecy? + + -- Archival Summary (adixto) +% +We witness a passing phase of eternity. Important things happen but some +people never notice. Accidents intervene. You are not present at episodes. +You depend on reports. And people shutter their minds. What good are reports? + History in a news account? Preselected at an editorial conference, digested +and excreted by prejudice? Accounts you need seldom come from those who make +history. Diaries, memoirs and autobiographies are subjective forms of special +pleading. Archives are crammed with such suspect stuff. + + -- Darwi Odrade +% +Spend energies on those who make you strong. Energy spent on weaklings drags +you to doom. (HM rule) Bene Gesserit Commentary: Who judges? + + -- The Dortujla Record +% +Ish yara al-ahdab hadbat-u. +(A hunchback does not see his own hunch. -- Folk Saying.) + +Bene Gesserit Commentary: The hunch may be seen with +the aid of mirrors but mirrors may show the whole being. + + -- The Bashar Teg +% +Religion must be accepted as a source of energy. It can be directed +for our purposes, but only within limits that experience reveals. +Here is the secret meaning of Free Will. + + -- Missionaria Protectiva, Primary Teaching +% +Our household god is this thing we carry forward generation after generation: +our message for humankind if it matures. The closest thing we have to a +household goddess is a failed Reverend Mother -- Chenoeh there in her niche. + + -- Darwi Odrade +% +When are the witches to be trusted? Never! The dark side of the magic +universe belongs to the Bene Gesserit and we must reject them. + + -- Tylwyth Waff, Master of Masters +% +Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. +Seek discipline and find your liberty. + + -- The Coda +% +Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. +Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) +choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in +an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary. + + -- Darwi Odrade +% +Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. + + -- Zensunni koan +% +Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet +explain nothing. + + -- The Zensunni Whip +% +Battle? There's always a desire for breathing space motivating it somewhere. + + -- The Bashar Teg +% +Do not be quick to reveal judgment. Hidden judgment often is more potent. +It can guide reactions whose effects are felt only when too late to divert them. + + -- Bene Gesserit Advice to Postulants +% +Looked at one way, the universe is Brownian movement, nothing predictable at +the elemental level. Muad'Dib and his Tyrant son closed the cloud chamber +where movement occurred. + + -- Stories from Gammu +% +What do Holy Accidents teach? Be resilient. Be strong. +Be ready for change, for the new. Gather many experiences +and judge them by the steadfast nature of our faith. + + -- Tleilaxu Doctrine +% +When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, +that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious. Allow for surprises. +When we create, there are always other forces at work. + + -- Darwi Odrade +% +There's no secret to balance. 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