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THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum
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The Disturbing Follow-Up To The Mothman Prophecies

Is there a single intelligent force behind all religious, occult, and UFO phenomena?

Strange manifestations have haunted humans since prehistoric times. Beams of light, voices from the heavens, the little people, gods and devils, ghosts and monsters, and UFOs, have all had a prominent place in our history and legends. In this dark work, John Keel explores these phenomena, and in doing so reveals the shocking truth about our present position and future destiny in the cosmic scheme of things.

Are we pawns in a celestial game?

In the Orient, there is a story told of the seven towers. These citadels, well hidden from mankind, are occupied by groups of Satanists who are chanting the world to ruin. Perhaps this is just a story; perhaps there is some truth behind it. But what if there is yet another tower, a tower not of good or evil but of infinite power? What if all our destinies are controlled by this cosmic force for its own mysterious purposes? And what if UFOs and other paranormal manifestations are merely tools being used to manipulate us and guide us toward the cosmic role we are fated to play? Perhaps, after all, we are not independent beings but are instead the creations and slaves of the eighth tower.

JOHN A. KEEL (March 25, 1930 July 3, 2009) was an American journalist and influential UFOlogist best known as the author of The Mothman Prophecies. The least known of his tremendously influential works, The Eighth Tower was derived from material left out of The Mothman Prophecies. Keels first book, Jadoo, and his breakthrough UFO book, Operation Trojan Horse, have also been reprinted by Anomalist Books.

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The Eighth Tower

Other Anomalist Books by John A. Keel

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Jadoo

Operation Trojan Horse

The Eighth Tower:

on Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

John A. Keel

Anomalist Books

San Antonio * Charlottesville

The Eighth Tower: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum

ISBN: 9781938398186

Originally published by the Saturday Review Press in 1975. The Estate of John A. Keel has authorized this Anomalist Books edition.

Book design by Seale Studios

For information, go to AnomalistBooks.com, or write to: Anomalist Books, 5150 Broadway #108, San Antonio, TX 78209

PART ONE

I do not know how to find out anything new without being offensive. Charles Fort

Whats a nice Jewish boy like you doing in a place like this? Gestas, a fully accredited scoundrel, gasped as the ropes around his arms sawed into his flesh.

How come you couldnt beat this hum rap? Dismas grunted, his body hanging loose against the wooden beam, defeated by the irrevocable law of gravity.

Between them, suspended from a third wooden cross of questionable workmanship, the man named Yehoshuah moaned and mumbled incoherently. Unlike his two companions, Yehoshuah was not tied to the crossbeam but had been nailed in place. He was in considerable pain. A heavy spike had been driven into each of his palms and his full weight rested upon the delicate muscles and hones of his bleeding hands. The tension on his outstretched arms worked against the other muscles in his body, particularly his diaphragm, which actuates the lungs. Breathing would become increasingly more difficult until, finally, death by asphyxiation would result.

Overhead, the desert sun dimmed and the skies darkened.

Whatd he say? Gaius Cassius asked.

Dont know. Something about somebody named Elias. Must be one of those freaks that were hanging around him.

They all took off in a hurry, didnt they? The centurion chuckled.

They wanted to save their own skins. Never saw it fall.

Whats that youve got there? Cassius asked his friend.

The robe that guy was wearing. Its a pretty good robe.

Yeah, well if thats all were getting out of this, we might as well cut it up.

Its too good to cut. Its really a good robe.

Okay, okay. Then well draw lots. The winner keeps the whole thing. Somebody might as well get something our of this.

Funny. That guy made all kinds of claims. He was a real religious nut, you know. And all he left behind was this robe? Rotten business, Cassius winced. A man lives thirty years and all thats left is a piece of cloth. Nobody will even remember his name.

What was his name anyway?

Yehoshuah. Doesnt mean a thing. Theres thousands of Yehoshuahs around here.

Writing spurious biblical dialogues has been a very profitable business for centuries. Scores of best-selling novels have appeared, all based on minor references, even single lines, in the Scriptures. Childrens books and Sunday school papers by the thousands have presented reconstructions of vaguely defined biblical events, offering imaginary conversations carefully phrased in King Jamess English. The reality of those events was certainly far removed from the pious thee and thou of the modern interpreters. As the life and death of the man called Yehoshuah assumed increasing importance across the centuries, an army of fanatical scholars labored to verify obtuse scriptural references from other historical writings, and a mountain of myth supplanted molehills of fact. Interpretation became a theological art.

Did Yehoshuah exist at all? The slender evidence accepted by billions of people during the past two thousand years would not stand up in a modern court of law. It does not even meet the more flexible standards of contemporary journalism. The ancient codices, or parchment scrolls, recounting the life and death of Yehoshuah were compiled many years after the events, and were based upon hearsay instead of direct eyewitness testimony. While they presumed knowledge of the intricate details of Yehoshuahs birth, these codices offer no information whatsoever about his formative years, nor do they furnish substantive background on his family.

We do not even know this mans full name.

Yehoshuah, which means Joshua in English, was gradually isolated from his Judaic background by theologians anxious to make him acceptable to the gentile population. The earliest codices were written in Greek rather than Aramaic, the language of Mesopotamia, which had been adopted by the Jews. The Greek rendering of Joshua is Jesus. Jesus was known as Yehoshuah during his lifetime, and the Greek version did not come into usage until about A.D. 100, nearly two generations after his death.

The term Christ or the Christ was not formally added to the name Jesus until about A.D. 400. However, Yehoshuahs disciples were contemptuously labeled Christians a few years after the crucifixion. Christ stems from the Greek Christos , the translation of the Hebrew mashiakh , which means anointed one or Messiah. Yehoshuah himself did not claim to be the Messiah. According to the biblical texts, he repeatedly referred to himself as the son of man.

In a literal sense, Jesus Christ never existed.

Not too many years ago anyone who dared question the validity of the Scriptures would have been stoned to death in the public square or, at minimum, ruined financially and ostracized socially. But in the last century a group of leading theologians and religious scholars took a very close look at those documents and concluded that the entire Yehoshuah/Christ story could be seriously questioned. The Gospels describing Christs life and ministry were derived from a single source, according to those who studied the style and content of the original codices. (The validity of many other parts of the Bible, such as Jonahs testimony about his adventure inside the whale, is now mired in controversy.) Other religious and historical documents of the period make no reference to Christ, including the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, which were hidden away about thirty years after his death. Early fanatics tried to correct this deficiency by composing a number of false records and documents. Court records and official documents covering the first years of the first century were later methodically collected and destroyed. All that remains are the somewhat unsatisfactory and contradictory biblical texts.

Fundamentaliststhose who take the Bible literallymanage to overlook the less than flattering profile of Christ in the New Testament. He is clearly described as a man who led a small band of thieves and prostitutes who openly defied the authorities and violated the laws of that place and time. While professing humility and concern for the impoverished, he had his followers wash his feet in an extremely expensive form of perfume, and his body was interred in a tomb that had been prepared for a wealthy man. On the cross he did not behave like a man undergoing a death that had long been prophesied. In fact, he died with less dignity than the two thieves who shared his fate. He moaned and groaned, and whined that he had been forsaken.

Nevertheless, billions of people have responded emotionally to the story of Christ and his suffering, just as an almost identical story dominated the Egyptian civilization for four thousand years. The spiritual life of Egypt was centered on the myth of Osiris, who, like Chris, was a great spiritual leader who sacrificed his life in a fight against evil. And, like Christ, his apparition returned to guide his people in times of trial. Many of the Christian beliefs are adaptations of the earlier Osiris theology that eventually spread to Greece. The Greeks had a great influence on early Christianity, and many of their earlier beliefs overlapped into the new religion.

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