![]() ![]() Morgan was a member of the Society of Supreme Gnosis, an offshoot of Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical Society, and was very impressed with the young girl who showed up at her door. The booklet Morgan had sent fascinated her, and she decided to go meet and talk with her. She had become interested in the occult from a young age and had written to an English woman, Elisabeth Morgan, for literature. When she was 15, and the family was on vacation in Ostend, David-Néel walked into the Netherlands and booked passage to England. ![]() ![]() She once wrote that she was homesick for a land which was not her own and could never settle for the comfortable and predictable life her parents, and later her husband, hoped to provide her with. Whatever her motivation, her early flight from home would become a signature characteristic of her strong desire for freedom. ![]()
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