Paul Laffoley
(b. 1940, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Cosmolux
1981
Oil, acrylic and lettering on canvas
73 1⁄2 x 73 1⁄2 in.

Subject: The Natural Urbanism of the Universe

Symbol Evocation: The Cosmic Conventicle

Comments: It is said that throughout the history of humankind, both recorded and unrecorded, there has existed an Invisium Collegium (or an invisible college of people) who have formed a tradition outside of all other traditions. The members of the I.C. are intrusted with keeping the world from destroying itself and maintaining humanity in readiness for participation in the cosmic task. This college contains only 30 positions at any moment in history—no more, no less. If a member dies, a new candidate is chosen by a ritual that has never been witnessed by outsiders or the family of the candidate. The only time that a candidate knows of the I.C., and that they have been chosen, is when a dying member approaches them with a special gift to be placed in the candidate’s charge. If the gift is accepted the member can die in peace knowing that everything is again all right with the world and the future of human destiny is assured. All religious and occult groups have hinted at the existence of the Invisium Collegium, but it was the followers of the tradition of the Qabalah who gave it a more descriptive name: The Lamedh Vulvinik—the 30 who goad the ox of humanity through the proper cosmic portal to the next stage of the evolution of the entire physical universe, and who maintain the earth until that fatal moment.

They are the practitioners, not of natural or religious revelation, but of methodological revelation—the exact counterpart to methodological sensation or science. Why this I so, is that in this way the information about the nature of the cosmic task remains undistorted own through history. Any particular member of the Invisium Collegium is not required to understand the nature of the cosmic task but only keep alive the transmission of information, by means of “the gift,” until such time as the people of earth have achieved a special nature of consciousness which will allow the earth’s part of the cosmic task to unfold. I have received certain hints, fragments, Freiheiten, which have given me a sense of the nature of the Invisium Collegium, the Cosmic Task, and the fact that the task is at hand.

We are ready to move out into cosmic space from a planet, which for all intents and purposes exists in the very wild wood of the universe. The urban centers of the universe are in the most unimaginable places as far as we are concerned. What is coming through is: 1) The Lamedh Vulvinik is the decoding of the Gnostic mythos of the Conventicle, an assemble of those who possess knowledge that by its nature must necessarily violate the consensus of what constitutes reality. The Conventicle alone can serve as the instrument of apocalyptic synthesis. The goal of the Conventicle is not to transform the world, but to escape from it. 2) The cosmic task, in its totality, is the redesigning of the entire physical universe in order to allow it to enter a dimensional portal (or in my terms—to transit from the fourth to the fifth dimensional realm). 3) The golden section of proportion (x2-x-1=0= (1+ √5)/2) in all its manifestations is the key as to how to cause the transit. The golden section or Phi is the master fractal of manifest nature which allows for a perfect continuity of life and death. 4) The actual instrumentality of transit will be by light itself in both is additive and subtractive forms. What is referred to as the conscious and non-conscious aspects of the physical universe will be first transformed into light before transit. 5) I believe that UFOs have been monitoring the work of the Invisium Collegium and helping them to continue by means of forms that go beyond consciousness. The end result to humanity will be as a particular form of consciousness, as incomprehensible to a particular human being as the nature of the human being would be to one of the cells that go to make up that human.