The basic precepts of the Potentium may have been influenced by the morally relativistic and solipsistic philosophy espoused by Jedi Master Phanius around 2,000 BBY.
The Potentium was theorized in 132 BBY. At the time the Potentium were expelled from the Jedi, Leor Hal was their leader. Prior to their expulsion, Hal had recruited many students from prospective Jedi among the aristrocratic families of Coruscant and Alderaan.
Sekot, the intelligence of the planet Zonama Sekot, accepted Potentium after its awakening, when it was colonized by some of the outcast followers under Hal. The colonists felt Zonama Sekot was proof of the Potentium philosophy, and Sekot eventually came to consider itself the protector of the Force (though as some derisively pointed out, this protectorship was self-appointed). Vergere, an Old Republic Jedi who was captured by the Yuuzhan Vong, was believed to have taken this as one of the contributing factors in her teachings, although contradicting the Potentiate's main edicts of evil being nonexistent.
Following the expulsion of Leor Hal, Jedi Masters Qui-Gon Jinn and Mace Windu had a run-in with a group of Potentium apprentices.
Although many believed that Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order practiced this belief after the Yuuzhan Vong War through Jacen Solo's insistence, it was actually closer to the philosophy of Gray Jedi as stated by Grand Master Skywalker himself after the Liberation of Coruscant. Near the end of the Swarm War, the New Jedi Order resumed the more orthodox light side and dark side approach.
(source: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Potentium)
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