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This article refers to elements from Original Dune Pages for this subject as it appears in other canons:
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- "Men, finding no answers to the sunnan [the ten thousand religious questions from the Shari-ah] now apply their own reasoning. All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.[1]"
- ―Beginning of the Commentaries
The Commentaries' was a work of literature produced by the Commission of Ecumenical Translators which archived the views of the followers of the Fourteen Sages[2] and was published with the Orange Catholic Bible and Liturgical Manual.
The Commentaries were less than half the length of the Orange Catholic Bible and it was considered to be a candid work full of self-pity and self-righteousness. The beginning attempted to appeal to agnostic rulers.[3]
The conclusion of the Commentaries adopted a harsh tone which foreshadowed their troubled reputation.
- "Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.[1]"
- ―Conclusion of the Commentaries
Despite its controversy, both the OCB and Commentaries left a lasting legacy on the spiritual state of the Known Universe.[4] Elements of Fremen mythology and the Bene Gesserit Kwisatz Haderach could be traced back to the commentaries:[5]
When law and religious duty are one, your selfdom encloses the universe.
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- "The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified. Transient life, even that self-aware and reasoning life which we call sentient, holds only fragile trusteeship on any portion of the wholeness.[6]"
- ―Commentaries from the C.E.T. (Commission of Ecumenical Translators)
- "It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.[7]"
- ―The Commentaries
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dune - Appendix II: The Religion of Dune
- ↑ Dune - Appendix II: The Religion of Dune: The followers of the Fourteen Sages, whose Book was the Orange Catholic Bible, and whose views are expressed in the Commentaries and other literature produced by the Commission of Ecumenical Translators. (C.E.T.);
- ↑ Dune - Appendix II: The Religion of Dune: With the O.C. Bible, C.E.T. presented the Liturgical Manual and the Commentaries -- in many respects a more remarkable work, not only because of its brevity (less than half the size of the O.C. Bible), but also because of its candor and blend of self-pity and self-righteousness. The beginning is an obvious appeal to the agnostic rulers.
- ↑ Dune - Appendix II: The Religion of Dune: Ninety generations later, the O.C. Bible and the Commentaries permeated the religious universe.
- ↑ Dune - Appendix II: The Religion of Dune: The Fremen said of Muad'Dib that he was like Abu Zide whose frigate defied the Guild and rode one day 'there' and back. 'There' used in this way translates directly from the Fremen mythology as the land of the ruh-spirit, the alam al-mithal where all limitations are removed. The parallel between this and the Kwisatz Haderach is readily seen. The Kwisatz Haderach that the Sisterhood sought through its breeding program was interpreted as "The shortening of the way" or "The one who can be two places simultaneously." But both of these interpretations can be shown to stem directly from the Commentaries: "When law and religious duty are one, your selfdom encloses the universe."
- ↑ Children of Dune - Chapter 7
- ↑ Children of Dune - Chapter 27