Maurice Doreal (1898–1963), born Claude Doggins,[1] was an American occultist and founder of the Brotherhood of the White Temple.
Doreal claimed that during a 1925 visit to the Great Pyramids of Giza, he discovered a set of ancient emerald tablets belonging to the Egyptian deity Thoth, whom he re-imagined as a king of Atlantis.
[4] 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.
[4] 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".