Kwisatz Haderach

"Kwisatz Haderach" is the name of a prophesied messiah in Frank Herbert's fictional ''Dune'' universe. In Terminology of the Imperium, the glossary of the novel Dune, Frank Herbert provides the following definition: The Kwisatz Haderach is also known as "the one who can be many places at once" in the texts. The Bene Gesserit hoped to create a male who could survive the ritual spice agony that changes a female acolyte into a Reverend Mother, a male thus capable of absolute powers of prescience, able to predict all possible futures and to cause select threads of time to be realized through manipulation. A female Bene Gesserit was limited: The Sisterhood planned to use their Kwisatz Haderach to strengthen Bene Gesserit power among other power loci within the Empire. The origin of Kwisatz Haderach is most likely from the Hebrew language expression Kefitzat Haderech (קפיצת הדרך), which literally means "jumping of the path/road/way", and translates to "the great breakthrough" or "the... full article at wikipedia