Did Lovecraft Know The Abba Father?
By James Donahue
Horror fiction author Howard Phillips Lovecraft gained posthumous fame because of his peculiar short stories of “horror fiction” published in pulp magazines during the years he lived, between 1890 and 1937. Among his strange creations was the beast he named Cthulhu.
The phrase “Old One” often used by The Abba Father in his dialogues via my late wife and spiritualist, Doris Donahue, triggers thoughts of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu, a creature described as a “Great Old One” among Lovecraft followers. Cthulhu was said to be one of a special number of powerful beings that once walked the Earth. Only one or two of them were thought to still be hanging around at the time The Abba Father began communicating with us via Doris’s makeshift image of a Ouija board in 2003. Prior to that date her contacts with the spirit world included visits with angelic beings.
We had a strange contact with an energy I thought might have been one of the remaining Old Ones during our time at Keams Canyon, on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona in about 1998. Doris was working as a temporary medical technologist for a government operated hospital facility. Since I was employed by the White Mountain Independent in Show Low, I was driving to the reservation on weekends to spend time with her. It was on a Sunday afternoon . . . we were enjoying a meal before I hit the road for the long journey back to Show Low. Somehow our conversation fell on the Lovecraft Cthulhu creature and the story passing among occultists that suggested Cthulhu was a real entity and may still be living among us.
Just at that critical moment there was a loud “crack,” the power went out and we were left sitting in the dark. It was as if Cthulhu was letting us know he was not only hanging around on Earth, but tuning in on our conversation. The story was told that this being’s energy was so powerful the power always went off when it was around. The strangeness got even more pronounced when we stopped briefly at the hospital, which operated on an emergency generation system, and found the power went out there as well.
During our time with The Abba Father we had the clear sense that this was a powerful being and that he belonged to a group of giants like himself that once traversed the planet. He remained invisible to us even though we often asked for a description. If we were, indeed, communicating with Cthulhu, or one like him, there was probably good reason The Abba Father chose to never show himself.
Lovecraft described Cthulhu as “a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long narrow wings behind.” Others described the beast as resembling “an octopus, dragon and human caricature, standing hundreds of meters tall, with webbed human-looking arms and legs and rudimentary wings on its back.” Tentacles protrude from the beast’s mouth.
Artists have produced images of Cthulhu that are difficult to look at. Some believe that just looking at Cthulhu can drive the viewer insane.
The similarities between The Abba Father’s description of himself and Lovecraft’s description of Cthulhu are not easy to define. But there are suggestions to lead to a premise that they may be one and the same. As stated earlier, The Abba Father said he was among a race of giants that once lived on Earth and now plan to return to correct the problems we have created. He said he existed in a parallel universe and was interested in saving the human race. His very choice of a name strongly suggests that he was approaching us in a spirit of love.
The night The Abba Father first made contact we asked a lot of questions. Among them: “What was the purpose in creating the human race?
His answer: “The x, y and z chromosomes turned a baboon into humanoid construct, but the system was not perfect. Love was the purpose, not hate. A baboon cannot love nor can they project kingdoms that vow to not fight so mankind was engineered to promote pure love. But (humans also were) given choices. They were given programs that would enhance love in the brain. Choosing not to use the program was the mistake. Instead, love was forsaken for another system called fear. No one can process love with fear.”
The Abba Father also said he had visited this planet at earlier times, and that threatened extinction has occurred in the distant past. We asked how many times the Abba Father returned to save the human race from its own folly. The answer came in the form of a riddle.
He said he did not measure events in terms of times as we do. He said the process involved light years, “not your times. Put together the alignment of planets and how often this occurs. Multiply this with numbers that count to quarters on a map. Then you will know the answer,” the Abba Father said.
By James Donahue
Horror fiction author Howard Phillips Lovecraft gained posthumous fame because of his peculiar short stories of “horror fiction” published in pulp magazines during the years he lived, between 1890 and 1937. Among his strange creations was the beast he named Cthulhu.
The phrase “Old One” often used by The Abba Father in his dialogues via my late wife and spiritualist, Doris Donahue, triggers thoughts of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu, a creature described as a “Great Old One” among Lovecraft followers. Cthulhu was said to be one of a special number of powerful beings that once walked the Earth. Only one or two of them were thought to still be hanging around at the time The Abba Father began communicating with us via Doris’s makeshift image of a Ouija board in 2003. Prior to that date her contacts with the spirit world included visits with angelic beings.
We had a strange contact with an energy I thought might have been one of the remaining Old Ones during our time at Keams Canyon, on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona in about 1998. Doris was working as a temporary medical technologist for a government operated hospital facility. Since I was employed by the White Mountain Independent in Show Low, I was driving to the reservation on weekends to spend time with her. It was on a Sunday afternoon . . . we were enjoying a meal before I hit the road for the long journey back to Show Low. Somehow our conversation fell on the Lovecraft Cthulhu creature and the story passing among occultists that suggested Cthulhu was a real entity and may still be living among us.
Just at that critical moment there was a loud “crack,” the power went out and we were left sitting in the dark. It was as if Cthulhu was letting us know he was not only hanging around on Earth, but tuning in on our conversation. The story was told that this being’s energy was so powerful the power always went off when it was around. The strangeness got even more pronounced when we stopped briefly at the hospital, which operated on an emergency generation system, and found the power went out there as well.
During our time with The Abba Father we had the clear sense that this was a powerful being and that he belonged to a group of giants like himself that once traversed the planet. He remained invisible to us even though we often asked for a description. If we were, indeed, communicating with Cthulhu, or one like him, there was probably good reason The Abba Father chose to never show himself.
Lovecraft described Cthulhu as “a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long narrow wings behind.” Others described the beast as resembling “an octopus, dragon and human caricature, standing hundreds of meters tall, with webbed human-looking arms and legs and rudimentary wings on its back.” Tentacles protrude from the beast’s mouth.
Artists have produced images of Cthulhu that are difficult to look at. Some believe that just looking at Cthulhu can drive the viewer insane.
The similarities between The Abba Father’s description of himself and Lovecraft’s description of Cthulhu are not easy to define. But there are suggestions to lead to a premise that they may be one and the same. As stated earlier, The Abba Father said he was among a race of giants that once lived on Earth and now plan to return to correct the problems we have created. He said he existed in a parallel universe and was interested in saving the human race. His very choice of a name strongly suggests that he was approaching us in a spirit of love.
The night The Abba Father first made contact we asked a lot of questions. Among them: “What was the purpose in creating the human race?
His answer: “The x, y and z chromosomes turned a baboon into humanoid construct, but the system was not perfect. Love was the purpose, not hate. A baboon cannot love nor can they project kingdoms that vow to not fight so mankind was engineered to promote pure love. But (humans also were) given choices. They were given programs that would enhance love in the brain. Choosing not to use the program was the mistake. Instead, love was forsaken for another system called fear. No one can process love with fear.”
The Abba Father also said he had visited this planet at earlier times, and that threatened extinction has occurred in the distant past. We asked how many times the Abba Father returned to save the human race from its own folly. The answer came in the form of a riddle.
He said he did not measure events in terms of times as we do. He said the process involved light years, “not your times. Put together the alignment of planets and how often this occurs. Multiply this with numbers that count to quarters on a map. Then you will know the answer,” the Abba Father said.