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He has explored the Bible as much as any other writer before him, and made the suggestion that modern life has a basis in the scriptures to a far greater depth than has ever been thought. Many other writers and authors have made the same basic discoveries but have not taken the theme to its final conclusion. Prehistorical mythology and modern legend presented a back-cloth for discussing UFO phenomena. John D. Middleton decided to reveal some of the true implications of these phenomena — whether they be extraterrestrial — or terrestrial! His thoughts and assumptions are delirious with modern contempt of being kept in the dark. Within fifteen chapters, life is discussed in a way few authors have chanced to make public knowledge and with this in mind there is a certain excitement being held for the reader. As he so rightfully suggests, "If it has been a volume of speculation then the reader has read a good story; if it is a volume of facts, then someone has a lot of explaining to do". He reached that 'Time To Be Told'. - Will You? by John D. Middleton This writer has presented one of the most provoking and sensational books to be published in this decade. WARRINGTON ENGLAND TIME TO BE TOLD by John D. Middleton First published 1978: Copyright J. D. Middleton Printed and published by Collins & Darwell Ltd. ASPIRATIONS: ... the seeking of the soul for what is better! From within and from without — we came We inhabited Earth - all the same The poor — were they that knew fame The wealthy — were they that grew lame We are the ones with a name But with 'God' was this — his game? JDM/9.75 DEDICATION John D. Middleton has called this book a volume. He has insisted on this for the reason that it contains a series of chapters which although schematic are in total, compendious to the degree that each can be formulated into much larger books; but which is neither necessary nor sought after in this instance. He has attempted to avoid scientific jargon and philanthropic discourse in an endeavour to give you the reader an easy-to-read version of what he feels is of the utmost importance to all men of all creeds. He has found that now is the TIME TO BE TOLD*. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: I should like to thank in all sincerity those people who unfortunately tolerated my obsession with these matters for the past few years and to those who persistently ridiculed this subject may they eventually be enlightened by a far greater source than myself. This volume has been presented, not as an authoritative work, but as a coalescent theme to the layman and others who are grasping at this subject in the light of current discoveries and technological achievement. All quoted material and relevant sources will be found indicated in parenthesis throughout the text and acknowledged in the bibliography. I extend sincere apologies on behalf of any omissions which may occur unintentionally. FORWARD: I was born in 1945 — I may die tomorrow! What of these years? World War II had almost ended - a new Peace on Earth was just about due. It was not to be — Korea, Suez, Viet-Nam, the Middle- East; all became embroiled in senseless mischiefs. To live and die, to hope and fear, the incongruences of life itself imparting the beliefs of archetypal leaders, ever sworn to emulate the powers of dictatorship. This was the life! How sad to reflect some thirty years later that life hasn't really changed at all — and neither have we. I must admit: I was not a willing, or even keen, student of religion as my school records bear witness. Yet for this non- belief I rationalised life as to be somewhere between survival and indoctrination, not withstanding premature death. We are christened in a church; we are married (usually) in a church; we are mourned for in a church. What does all this signify? A way of life, the accepted principal, an ensurance of our 'place' in heaven, or a permanent indoctrination? Perplexity indeed. I follow the paths of others before me and achieve great satisfaction in being what I term a humanist — far greater, be-it-said, than any orthodox or non-orthodox religion! Perhaps in time a new epoch will evolve. It will be our negligence that conceives this era; and you and 1 will not be spared. This is the way of our world — that benign oasis where one is controlled throughout — and whoever thought of robots? This will be 'not so much a book', 'more a volume of absurdities'; — we have yet to learn — and I, for one, am sure it is our 'TIME TO BE TOLD'. J. D. Middleton, July 1977. CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1 Our Religions 2 The Bible 3 The Bible and Extraterrestrial Intervention 4 The Bible and Jesus 5 The Paternal Mythology of Race and Man 6 The Earth — a Celestial Habitat 7 The Moon — a Celestial Oasis? 8 The UFO Enigma - Our Inheritance? 9 UFOs — Transgressions and the Constant! 10 UFOs — Interplanetary 'Shuttles' and Sub-oceanic 'Machines'? • 11 UFOs — The Co-ordination of the Collective Hallucination — or — the Greatest Fact of Life! 12 Questionable Thoughts on The Unexplained 13 Frightful Fact or Fantastic Fiction 14 On the Outside Looking In — 'Alternative Three' 15 The Modern Terrestrial UFO. Bibliography INTRODUCTION: There have always been those people on Earth who have had an answer to most questions, but as yet, no one person or group of people have met with qualified success in their answers to life itself. On many occasions, both writers and authors have asserted their specialised knowledge, but the loopholes have been so great that they themselves were never able to assure themselves that their beliefs or thoughts were correct, or even anywhere near the truth. Within this volume I hope to piece together certain facets of those hitherto mysteries, which have remained in our world for all time. I am no specialist, nor do I boast of any qualification to give any form of credence to this volume, and strangely enough, I have no specific reason for the compilation and subsequent publication of this volume, with the exception perhaps, that it is for the same reason that you the reader have purchased this volume. Without a doubt, I will be one of those people despised by most authors who, to be quite positive, produce nothing but drivel extracted from the more obscure volumes that fail to reach our bookshelves. To solve all the questions of our time, it is essential to discard all accepted theories of life and evolution, and, in so doing, prepare to re-inherit a totally new concept of what we are all about. One may claim that these subjects, discussed herein, are of too broad a scope to be dealt with in this short volume, and I couldn't agree more. However, time and space being limited, I have endeavoured to give the reader, many facts, many incidences and many personal thoughts that may perhaps be understood and reasoned. It is my final wish that we are soon to be advised of the date and the time of Thy Kingdom Come'. We in the western world nearly all claim to be Christians, encompassed by our personal attachment to Anglicanism, Catholicism; or to Judaism; or to one of the religious groups or sects which have literally sprung into existence in more recent times. Our homeland, planet Earth, must now have several thousand 'pseudo' — religions attached to its many ethnic groups. The power and strength of Catholicism is said to be no greater in reality than that of Hinduism or Buddhism in the Asian continent, and these have more of a physical past to associate with. The anxiety of religion in the western world, as we know it, has reached its peak in more ways than one, and it can be quite categorically stated that it is fast losing its popularity and hold on all of us in one way or another. Today, religious fanatics cannot even hold their own peace, let alone the peace of their fellowmen; and those that 'fall by the wayside' far outnumber those that 'keep the faith' in their hearts if not in their minds. Todays passiveness in people is sufficient to demonstrate the diminishing strength of character in all the peoples of this Earth. The resulting uneasiness is going to be the final chapter to a life of hope yet despair in all the countries of the Earth where political instability is the new dogma. Having expended some four months spare time in 'reading' the Bible, I was convinced that, having read 'Chariots of the Gods?' by Erich von Daniken, in 1969 — some months previous; he had put together some very sound theories. Religious ambiguity had crossed my mind as a child, and I was rather tempted to pursue the subject to my own satisfaction. This volume expresses those answers which defy logic, yet unproven as they are, they are no more remote than the nonsense which has been served up for centuries. Will fidelity succeed? OURCHAPTER RELIGIONS 1 Christianity arose nearly 2000 years ago as a breakaway sect from Palestinian Judaism. It accepted the Jewish Scriptures as its own but with the belief that the Messiah had already appeared on Earth in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. The followers of Christianity suffered harassment in the early days but their strength grew through the centuries. As the new faith spread throughout eastern Europe, the Emperor of the time, Constantine the Great, summoned a Council of Church Fathers at Nicaea in 325 AD.