The Invisible College
"...so secret, you may already be a member."

Members:

Eric Compton, Member Emeritus

Associates:
Chase Kettle (Deceased)
Alyx Davian (Deceased)

The Invisible College, as they call themselves, is a group of seven mages, disparates and as-good-as-orphans, the dregs and detritus of the Traditions. They, however, would describe themselves as a revolutionary vanguard, an insertion cell deep undercover, bringing the war to the enemies. Their enemies include the Technocracy, "collaborationists" within the Traditions, representatives of Law and Order, Slow Drivers, and Jam Bands.

"Past Members have included Galileo, Beethoven, John Keats, Pablo Picasso, William S. Burroughs, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Salvador Dali, John Lennon, Steve Biko, and Robert Anton Wilson. Most members, of course, have a much lower profile." More on their history.

Their philosophy is a hodgepodge of overheard clues and misunderstood snippets. Borrowing wildly from the works of Robert Anton Wilson, William Burroughs, and Aleister Crowley, they have cobbled together a pseudo-Gnostic conspiracy involving the Archon-jailers, the Jail of the senses, and their mission as revolutionaries bent on Jailbreak.

"Their nigh-incomprehensible agenda involves carefully pruning away the factors they don't like by means of violence, manipulation, or swaying of public opinion. ... The Invisible College's motives are as difficult to decipher as their secretive structure and their bizarre plots."

For example - their "gang sign" is the Tetragrammaton - YHVH - in A.S.L. It just happens to look like 'Hang Loose,' 'Give Me a Cigarette,' 'Peace,' 'Give Me a Cigarette.'

The fact that they are a seven member cell means that they rotate duties. They have a system of correspondences aligning the Days of the Week, their associated Planets, the Deities associated with the Planets, the Seven Elements of the Fifth Age (Eastern and Western Elements), the Seven Elements of the Sixth Age, and the Seven Cardinal Drugs. Each Day has its duties and its dominion. Further information on this can be found here

It is not clear whether The Big Conspiracy which Skinny Hector "inducted" Jesse into exists or not. Jesse told Hiro, Hiro told Daisy, and the cabal found one another. Whether they are merely a cell in an incredibly secret army, or whether they are deluded lunatics making fools of themselves is beside the point. The point is, they believe.

The history of the Cabal, and summaries of the histories of its members, can be found here
An example of their Call to Arms can be found here
Their interpretations of the protocols can be found here
Their reading list (And Eric Compton's Library) can be browsed here
Plot ideas to show the sort of RP the Cabal generates can be found here