Maurice Doreal (1898–1963), born Claude Doggins, was an American

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and founder of the

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. Doreal claimed that during a 1925 visit to the

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, he discovered a set of ancient emerald tablets belonging to the Egyptian deity

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, whom he re-imagined as a king of

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. Doreal then claimed to have translated the text, which he published as the ''

Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean is a pseudohistory, pseudohistorical book written by cult leader Maurice Doreal (1898–1963) and first published in the 1940s or early 1950s. Influenced by ancient Egyptian texts and H. P. Lovecraft, Lo ...

'' (not to be confused with the medieval Hermetic text called the ''

Emerald Tablet The Emerald Tablet, also known as the Smaragdine Table or the ''Tabula Smaragdina'', is a compact and cryptic text traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic period, Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus. The earliest known version ...

'').

Occult views

In around 1930, Maurice Doreal formed the

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, having been involved in

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. He claimed that in 1931, in

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, he met two Atlanteans who took him to a cave underneath

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. Doreal quickly developed a cosmology focused on the inner earth, describing "underground races" he claimed to have learned about from the Atlanteans. Doreal developed theories of an underground serpent race. During the 1950s, Doreal incorporated aliens into his views. He combined these all into a theory that in the second half of the 20th century, the serpent race would ally with the

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. He believed that there were "three types of

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s including one piloted by 'serpent people' who were once ice-bound in

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, became defrosted and then replaced and overthrew the Communist regime in Russia". In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Doreal relocated the Brotherhood near

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, where he predicted that nuclear war would happen in 1953, but that he and his community would be protected by the mountains in the valley they relocated to. He died in 1963.

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Text of the "Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean" at Alchemylab.com

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