A History of The Invisible College
(Lifted from the Dark*Matter RPG)

CREATIVE ANARCHISM: THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE

According to some, anarchy has been burdened with an unfairly bad image. Philosophers and poets created the Invisible College in the 1500s and 1600s, and throughout the last few centuries this secretive group has existed just on the periphery of society to fight against totalitarian control and destabilize centralized power in general. Through often subtle means, the group slowly spreads its message of individual freedom and the evils of authority. This naturally brought it to the attention of the Rosicrurians, a vastly older organization with similar goals (at least on some levels). The Rosicrurians (and their secret heart, the Ascended Masters) have been allies with the Invisible College ever since, although the anarchists have never made this relationship easy.

The Invisible College exists only in the dark, shadowy fringes of society. Operating in tiny cells of a dozen members or so (who don't always know all the others in their group, let alone those in other cells), this secret organization creates art and literature that carries their hidden message. Some of the more influential artists and writers throughout the last four centuries - including popular stars of today - have secretly belonged to the Invisible College. 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.
Though the roots of the college lie within the creative arts, a good portion of the modern organization is devoted to action. The Invisible College supports (or actually operates as) tiny terrorist organizations, revolutionaries, and certain "lone nuts" with agendas based on the downfall of some authoritarian structure. Sometimes the network of operatives works on modest levels against authority figures as small as university student government. At other times, the Invisible College's schemes pit it against various law enforcement agencies or branches of government. The Invisible College has been responsible for political assassinations and bomb attacks, yet has organized peace rallies and marches as well. It has put events in motion that have freed political prisoners and helped end apartheid. Amnesty International was created by the Invisible College, and some say even Green Peace has its origins in an Invisible College cell.

The organization wages secret wars against groups such as the Freemasons and the Knights of Malta that attempt to use existing government structures to build their own totalitarian regimes. The very nature of the Bilderbergers and the Trilateral Commission labels them as even greater evils than existing governments in the eyes of the Invisible College.
Each cell has its own means of operation. Some choose to work subtly, while others prefer more overt (and often violent) action. Still other cells explore the unknown frontiers, probing paranormal and mysterious phenomena looking for secrets and power. These latter activities have brought hem into contact with the Hoffman Institute. Usually their relationship with the Institute is at least somewhat friendly (if a little distant).

Because of their anarchistic and individualist nature, the cells often have a rotating leadership position, or no leader at all. Even within a single cell, the members work as often as individuals as they do a team. Groups with looser structures consider of associates who know only one or two others in their cell. At the other extreme, no group in the world is as close as some of the tighter-than-family Invisible College cells.

Whether the group has a single, final goal is uncertain - even to most of its membership. Perhaps its only goal is to keep authoritarian structures from gaining a stranglehold on individuality. Perhaps its members cling to the seemingly impossible goal of instituting a completely free and anarchistic society throughout the world.

Rumor has it that the Invisible College cells know a great deal more about alien activities on earth than the general public does. Some say that a part of their agenda includes fighting against the alien Greys who hope to enslave humanity. Others claim that they work with the Greys, who support the College's goals of freedom and individuality. Whatever the truth, each cell probably knows a great many secrets beyond the ken of the rest of society - but due to the organization's nature, these secrets are often kept from other members of the Invisible College.

Lastly, Invisible College members are actually encouraged to belong to other secret societies and illuminati organizations to gain knowledge and infiltrate power structures. They also like the idea of other organizations not being able to trust their own membership.

Bloodthirsty diabolists and mass murders, these maniacs thrive on destruction and death. Reveling in chaos, they seek the complete downfall of civilization. They are the enemies of all other groups and of law-abiding people everywhere.
Or that's what they want you to think. Instead, they seek to undermine only the portions of human civilization that they disagree with. Their nigh-incomprehensible agenda involves carefully pruning away the factors they don't like by means of violence, manipulation, or saying of public opinion. For example, the Invisible College might detonate a bomb in a day-care facility to increase law enforcement's pressure on kooky right-wing militia groups so that they become more vocal about the right to bear arms, thus making legitimate gun lobbyists look bad. This in turn renders the lobbyists unable to stop legislation repealing the Second Amendment, making it easier for the Invisible College to facilitate the process of repealing amendments to the Constitution that they /really/ don't like. The Invisible College's motives are as difficult to decipher as their secretive structure and their bizarre plots.