Maurice Doreal

Maurice Doreal (1898 – 1963), born Claude Doggins,[1] was an American occultist and founder of the Brotherhood of the White Temple.

Occult views

Maurice Doreal claimed that in 1925, he went to the Great Pyramids of Giza and discovered the Emerald Tablets of Thoth, a king of Atlantis (not to be confused with Emerald Tablet). He then claimed that he had "translated" the text.[1]

In around 1930, Doreal formed the Brotherhood of the White Temple in Denver,[2] having been involved in Theosophy.[3] He claimed that in 1931, in Los Angeles, he met two Atlanteans who took him to a cave underneath Mount Shasta. Doreal quickly developed a cosmology focused on the inner earth, describing "underground races" he claimed to have learned about from the Atlanteans.[2] Doreal developed theories of an underground serpent race.[3] During the 1950s, Doreal incorporated aliens into his views.[2] He combined these all into a theory that in the second half of the 20th century, the serpent race would ally with the Antichrist.[3] He believed that there were "three types of flying saucers including one piloted by 'serpent people' who were once ice-bound in Siberia, became defrosted and then replaced and overthrew the Communist regime in Russia".[4]

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Doreal relocated the Brotherhood near Sedalia, Colorado, where he predicted that nuclear war would happen in 1953, but that him and his community would be protected by the mountains in the valley they relocated to.[2] He died in 1963.

References

Citations
  1. Partridge 2014, p. 705.
  2. Barkun 2003, p. 115.
  3. Partridge 2006, p. 37.
  4. Guttierez 2015, p. 407.

Bibliography
  • Barkun, Michael (2003). A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520248120.
  • Guttierez, Cathy (2015). Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling. Brill. ISBN 9789004264083.
  • Partridge, Christopher (2014). The Occult World. Routledge. ISBN 9781317596769.
  • Partridge, Christopher Hugh (2006). Understanding the Dark Side: Western Demonology, Satanic Panics and Alien Abduction. University of Chester Press. ISBN 9781905929160.
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