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	Missionaria Protectiva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Missionaria Protectiva is an arm of the Bene Gesserit, a fictional organization in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.
		In all, the intent of the Missionaria Protectiva is to bring about the view amongst the indigenous population that the Bene Gesserit is a personage to be sheltered and helped, when there may be in fact no way said Bene Gesserit could possibly assist the civilization in their quest for power/relief/healing.
		One example of the myths of the Missionaria Protectiva is that of the messianic Mahdi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missionaria_Protectiva (405 words)

	The Golden Path: an in-depth analysis by SuperString01 - Message Board - ezboard.com
		The Missionaria Protectiva also worked on the LARGE scale—so large in fact that it was scarcely detectable until it was too late.
		The point of the Missionaria Protectiva was to create tailor made religions to suit individual cultures on individual worlds.
		The one uniting factor of the Missionaria Protectiva that was the same throughout the Old Imperium, was the notion that one day a savior would come of a Bene Gesserit mother and set the oppressed masses free.
	p073.ezboard.com /fsistersreadingroomfrm38.showMessage?topicID=6.topic (3347 words)

	Dune (novel)
		The Messiah legend is intended to ease the path of the Kwisatz Haderach when they bring him into being.
		The division of the Bene Gesserit which is dedicated to religious manipulation is the Missionaria Protectiva.
		The Harkonnens are ordered by the Emperor to cede stewardship of the planet Arrakis (known generally as Dune) to the Atreides.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/du/Dune_(novel).html (808 words)

	Bene Gesserit - Dune Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In the novel Dune, the Bene Gesserit breeding scheme was, in theory, to have come to full fruition from the union of an Atreides daughter (born of the Lady Jessica and the Duke Leto Atreides) and the Na-Baron Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (son of Abulurd Harkonnen, brother of the Siridar-Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
		Paul claims to be Mahdi, a figure from legendary material planted among the Fremen by the Missionaria Protectiva.
		That the Mahdi legend has been planted on Dune indicates to Jessica that conditions on Dune are truly awful since this legend is reserved for only the harshest environments where a Bene Gesserit would need maximum leverage over her environment.
	wiki.dune2k.com /wiki/Bene_Gesserit (4194 words)

	Dune (Frank Herbert) - A Science Fiction and Fantasy Page
		Political themes in the Dune series include human beings' susceptibility to mass manipulation by political propaganda, religious dogma (e.g., The Missionaria Protectiva), and sexual temptation, and the importance of self-awareness and self-mastery in resisting these types of control, as well as the study of power and control.
		Paul emerges as the Kwisatz Haderach, and Jessica's knowledge of the secret religious myths of the Fremen planted by the Bene Gesserit Missionaria Protectiva enable Paul to become Muad'Dib, a religious and political leader (Mahdi) who unites millions of the Fremen together into an unstoppable military force.
		The Messiah legend is intended as a safety net, allowing on-the-lam Bene Gesserit agents to quickly gain the cooperation of a local populace in order to survive or escape pursuit, as the case may be.
	www.thebucklist.com /dune.html (3521 words)

	Jessica Atreides
		The change of fief is a trap, though: shortly after committing themselves there, House Harkonnen and the Emperor invade (with the Emperor's sardaukar disguised as Harkonnen soldiers); the betrayal of the Duke by the family's doctor, Yueh[?], completes the plan, and House Atreides is destroyed in place.
		Paul and Jessica narrowly escape to the desert, finding refuge with the Fremen thanks to the legends planted there by the Bene Gesserit's Missionaria Protectiva, which practices religious engineering.
		Jessica casts Paul as the Lisan al'Gaib, the messiah, and herself as the reverend mother who shall bring him, even though she hasn't experienced the spice agony that transforms an acolyte into a full reverend mother.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/je/Jessica_Atreides.html (674 words)

	DuneIII MUSH: Lexicon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Canto: An invocation rite, part of the panoplia propheticus of the Missionaria Protectiva.
		Dark things: Idiomatic for the infectious superstitions taught by the Missionaria Protectiva to susceptible civilizations.
		Missionaria Protectiva: The arm of the Bene Gesserit order charged with sowing infectious superstitions on primative worlds, thus opening those regions to exploitation by the Bene Gesserit.
	www.dune3.net /lexicon.php (3201 words)

	SparkNotes: Dune: Book II (continued)
		At times, she has resisted the orders and training of the Bene Gesserit, most significantly by having a boy rather than a girl, but they have always influenced her decisions.
		Jessica accepts her role as the mother of the savior, according to the implanted legends of the Missionaria Protectiva; thus she is strengthening her ties to the Bene Gesserit.
		She realizes he is the Kwisatz Haderach, according to the legend of the Missionaria Protectiva, and the Bene Gesserit have very specific plans for Paul to alter the gene pool of the universe.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/dune/section7.rhtml (1060 words)

	Talk:Fremen - Dune Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Fremen language, Chakobsa, is loosely based on Arabic.
		A significant part of the Fremen mythology was created by the Bene Gesserit Missionaria Protectiva, through the manifestation of a Messiah legend.
		Diverse fail-safes and Bene Gesserit beliefs were inserted into the Fremen culture, to allow a Bene Gesserit-trained adept to exploit them to her advantage.
	wiki.dune2k.com /wiki/Talk:Fremen (868 words)

	[No title]
		The Reverend Mothers lead many of the Sisterhood’s projects, including the Missionaria Protectiva which, as the name suggests, spreads religion and superstition for the sake of protection (of Sisters).
		This knowledge allowed Jessica to carve a niche for herself and Paul (a Bene Gesserit Sister and her BG-trained son) with the Fremen — the desert-dwelling natives of Dune, as the Missionaria was designed to facilitate (F. Herbert, Dune, 284).
		A different type of mission was led by the Fish Speakers who, as the enforcers of Leto’s will, also acted as missionaries, with priests and priestesses coming from their ranks and from the spouses and other males.
	people.cohums.ohio-state.edu /kovach62/real/papers/Engl110.1.doc (1895 words)

	SparkNotes: Dune: Themes, Motifs & Symbols
		The Missionaria Protectiva reveals that the Bene Gesserit frequently exploit religion to protect their own members.
		The Bene Gesserit use the Missionaria Protectiva to spread contrived legends and prophecies to developing worlds.
		Bene Gesserit can exploit these legends to earn the respect of the native inhabitants, who believe in the contrived legends.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/dune/themes.html (1515 words)

	[extropy-chat] Engineered Religion (was Atheism in decline)
		On Mar 18, 2005, at 3:03 PM, john-c-wright at sff.net wrote: > Joseph writes: > >> The theme of the engineered religion is actually approached in several >> places in the Dune series.
		The Bene Gesserit use the Missionaria >> Protectiva >> to spread contrived legends and prophecies to developing worlds.
		> Their > Missionaria Protectiva does not save them, it sows the seed from which > the > unexpected Messiah grows, the one man in the universe the sisterhood > finds it > cannot control.
	lists.extropy.org /pipermail/extropy-chat/2005-March/014539.html (604 words)

	Missionaria Protectiva Projects
		Even I don't agree with all the ideas herein all the time.
		The real project of the Missionaria Protectiva would be to provide the missionary zeal and the soul-strength to heal our wounded world and counter the spread of our crippled culture.
		The colonialist churches of previous centuries have shown us a way to have a dramatic influence on local cultures in fairly short order.
	www.rattlebrain.com /~apegrrl/MPprojects.htm (526 words)

	Kroma Mountains - Message Board - ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Not even when they tried to kill your father would they lay a hand on a weirding-woman or her son.
		It's part of their religion." Thanks to the Bene Gesserit's Missionaria Protectiva that came here a half-millennium ago.
		Now these heathens that pray to "Mother Moon" wait for "Daughter Moon" and her son to deliver them from their enemies.
	p200.ezboard.com /ffoldspacefrm22.showMessage?topicID=2.topic (1205 words)

	Dune by Frank Herbert - The Fantasy Forum
		However, the B.G. is not without its sinister side; the existence of the Missionaria Protectiva reveals that the B.G. frequently exploit religion to protect their own members.
		The Missionaria Protective is the B.G.'s spread of contrived legends and prophecies to developing world.
		Years later, if a B.G. is stranded on the world, they can quote these legends, and they will earn the respect of the native inhabitants, who believe in the contrived legends.
	www.thefantasyforum.com /showthread.php?t=1427 (2303 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		There is enormous potential in this strategy, especially when the rulers themselves do not fall prey to whatever beliefs prevail - this allows them to better tailor the ecclesiastical edicts to the necessities and possibilities of their culture.
		Our Missionaria Protectiva preys on the weakness of the masses that drives them to seek out the help of higher powers, and moulds it to increase the potential of advancing the Sisterhood's needs.
		As well as creating fertile soil for the development of ours plans, the Missionaria forms the ultimate test to separate the humans from the animals.
	www.usul.net /fandom/marco/advent_08_b1_c03.html (1907 words)

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		And the Missionaria Protectiva of the Bene Gesserit was ready to launch her onto an unsuspecting humanity prepared for religious adoration.
		Sheeana knew her own sexual behavior, outrageous even by Bene Gesserit standards, was a form of protest against this role the Missionaria tried to impose on her.
		-Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto) Rebecca knelt on the yellow tile floor as she had been ordered to do, not daring to look up at Great Honored Matre seated so remotely high, so dangerous.
	www14.brinkster.com /fumadoe/dune/Dune_6_chapterhouse_dune.txt (21299 words)

	My Own Attempt At Poetry... - Zack de la Rocha Network Forum
		Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
		--Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto) --From Frank Herbet's Dune
		Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
	www.zdlr.net /board/index.php?showtopic=2655 (185 words)

	FED2k - Bi-La Kaifa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Obtaining a Missionaria it's a very long thing, and you also can have only one of them per mission.
		Missionaria can also fail, and in this case Fremen will think of you as an enemy.
		Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0
	www.dune2k.com /?page=community-creations&show=all&PHPSESSID=78f905fee2413d9d1f087843e8f1e0... (7461 words)

	Scientology getting special treatment (in relation to South Park)? - Page 2 - GameWinners.com Forums
		He started an organised religion which not only produces copious quanities of cash each year via selling useless and sometimes painfull novelty items, but got people to believe in what is a horrible E-grade scifi story...
		Ahem totatly batst crazy folks, an organised religion that runs covert ops, it's something akin to Missionaria* Protectiva...
		What people are told when they first join isn't that ridiculous though.
	forums.gamewinners.com /forums/showthread.php?t=479157&page=2 (378 words)

	t r u t h o u t \|\| Comments \|\| Realize This, about people that get angry and resentful when hearing the truth
		Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will its true nature be seen.
		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.
	forum.truthout.org /blog/comments/2005/12/3/145717/338/11 (592 words)

	Imperial Intelligence
		Apparently, Fremen follow a mystic tradition supported by a matriarchal priesthood (the aforementioned Sayyadinas) which in fact has its roots in Bene Gesserit teachings, but the commonality ends there.
		Contact between these women and Wallach IX has not occurred in millenia, and the beliefs of the "people of the bled" are now as divergent with the witch's "missionaria protectiva" as to be an entirely different religion.
		He was especially bellicose on the hubris of the invaders, attempting to sway the Fremen with claims of religious filialty, saying that they clearly took the Fremen for "children or fools, that we should not know our own ways, and recognize the self-serving lies of the outworlder."
	home.comcast.net /~daveferoe/dune/intel/10170_2.html (2028 words)

	OT: Let's have a war - Message Board - ezboard.com
		Yeah, it's difficult to gauge how concerned you can be when your knowledge based is skewed from the get go...
		You're right, sticking to one source is going to skew you.
		It can't be as bad as TIME's decline after they mergered w/Warner-AOL.
	p214.ezboard.com /fgormenghastgeneral.showMessage?topicID=965.topic (1677 words)

	The Fascist Oar: February 2006
		In the case of the Orange Catholic faith, it was spread by a Missionaria Protectiva controlled by the Bene Gesserit (Well-doers) to seed the various planets with preset religious memes and prophecies that would protect the dominant imperial culture in advance.
		That, of course, is classical missionary behavior, and the classic function of missionaries of the approved state faith in an imperium.
		The Butlerian Jihad, and I wonder if it's a coincidence that Herbert's is the 2nd such crusade - the first was in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, on behalf of humans against "self-willed" machines - had at its core a rigid division between human and inhuman, and more importantly, between living and dead.
	fascistoar.blogspot.com /2006_02_01_fascistoar_archive.html (10593 words)

	"Dune"jon [Donjon]
		One problem that may come up is that certain groups would seem to be too homogenous for play (Bene Gesserit) or just not fun to play (yay, I'm a navigator, I sit in a spice tank all day!).
		With regards to the Bene Gesserit at least one can give different characters specialized training (Security Proctor, Training Proctor, Missionaria Protectiva, Imprinter) and the same for Mentats who could also have specialized training, etc.
		Still obviously a work in progress, as I just got Donjon about a week ago.
	www.indie-rpgs.com /forum/index.php?t=3689 (725 words)

	SciForums.com - Orange Catholicism
		We see examples in the books of pre-God Emperor usage of computers in Snoopers (one of the few applications allowed) and certain other and valuable things, but then a complete absence otherwise.
		And aside from MIssionaria Protectiva macchinations, one can speak of Leto II being foretold by certain prophecies, and thus one can explain his eccentricities away with such things, as well as his ultimately non-human form.
		One could speak of the Worm compelling him.
	www.sciforums.com /printthread.php?t=48221 (2028 words)

	In A Galaxy Far, Far Away... - The Sugar Quill
		It was intensly frustrating for me too because wht really interested me about Dune (Besides what happened in the book itself) was what happened previously.
		I desperatly wanted to know about the War against the machines, about the Battle of Corrin, and about how the Missionaria Protectiva was formed.
		And the prequals have really disappointed me. They don't seem to have grasped what it really was that made Dune cool (for me at least).
	www.sugarquill.net /forum/index.php?act=findpost&pid=238321 (2525 words)

	Missionaria Protectiva - Dune Encyclopedia: Frank Herbert
		The Missionaria Protectiva is a group of Bene Gesserit missionaries that goes into planets to help soften them up for future Bene Gesserit visits.
		They embed legends and rituals into the culture, so that if a Bene Gesserit ever ends up there and needs help, the local population will be trained to look favorably on the BG.
		You MUST GET WRITTEN PERMISSION to reprint or republish any of this material.
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	Hear Ye!
		The only parts I really started to lose interest in were when religion impinged upon science with its drug-induced prescient visions.
		I must admit though, that the idea of the Missionaria Protectiva is quite ingenious.
		If you haven't read it, you should get around to it sooner or later.
	www.hearye.org /permalink.php?pid=2826 (367 words)

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		With the Lady Jessica and Arrakis, the Bene Gesserit system of sowing
		implant-legends through the Missionaria Protectiva came to its fruition.
		The wisdom of seeding the known universe with a prophecy pattern for the
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