She wrote a novel at the age of twelve
that defied comprehension, The Romance
of Atlantis, which lay dormant for more
than half a century before it saw the light
of day; but only because she was on the
New York Times best seller list
so often
that they had to publish her pre-teen novel.
But how in God’s name could a twelve
year old girl write a novel that defied her
tender age? What kind of sorcery was this?
For that matter, how did Mozart compose
the music he did when he was younger
than the pubescent Taylor Caldwell? Was
Mozart blessed with a similar genius? And
then I read her novel on the Golden Age
of Greece, the love of Pericles and Aspasia,
and old memories came back to me of my
own lifetime as a student of Pythagoras,
and then it hit me: she had slipped through
a crack in time and magically witnessed
history through the life of her characters:
that was her sorcery. And when I finished
reading her remarkable novel on Pericles
and Aspasia, I had to slip through the crack
one more time with the gifted author and
read Great Lion of God, the unbelievable
story of the tempestuous life of St. Paul,
the cynical Roman Jew who brought
Christ’s teaching to the world.
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