MADAME ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL

A most fascinating lady, author of many books, and Asian traveler, among other things, was Alexandra David-Neel who was born September 8,1869 and who died October 24,1969...100 years old,,,,a woman who lived a century...who learned Sanscrit and Tibetan and who endured many things in her life........she met MADAME BLAVATSKY in London in 1888, often considered a most important year in occultism and by occultists.......HPB, no doubt, inspired her to emulate certain things that she had done in terms of travels and occultism and Eastern Lore...as well as some possible 'radical/anarchistic/etc.'acttivities or writings, something that many occultists have involved themselves from time to time.....with the result that various 'conspiracy' theories have emerged and still are discussed to this very day. In her early days, Madame David-Neel seems attractive in the photos that are usually shown and from the various descriptions had a strong mind and will and an adventurous spirit....She spent time at Theosophical HQ in India and learned Sanskrit and eventually indulged or took part in 'tantric' rituals and rites, perhaps,as come might claim, in the infamous 'kuala circles' that have shocked the Western sensibilities of Sedate Victorian Society and slightly afterwards....At any rate, her works have had a profound effect upon many later occultists and writers in search of the esoteric.....