1. Ernest Wood became president of his local Theosophist chapter in 1907 at age 24, then embraced the larger world by moving in 1908 to Adyar, India, the Society's world headquarters.
22 Facts About Ernest Wood
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Ernest Wood joined the society's Manchester lodge and in 1908 followed Besant, who had become President of the Theosophical Society Adyar, to India.
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Ernest Wood became one of her assistants, working with Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, who had arrived in Adyar in 1909.
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Ernest Wood observed the discovery of the boy Jiddu Krishnamurti by Leadbeater, who soon declared Krishnamurti to be the vehicle for the "coming World Teacher".
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At Besant's suggestion, Ernest Wood became involved in education, and after 1910, he served as headmaster of several schools and colleges founded by the Theosophical Society.
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Ernest Wood became Professor of Physics, Principal and President of the Sind National College and the Madanapalle College, both teaching colleges of the Bombay and Madras Universities.
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Ernest Wood lectured throughout India and travelled to many countries in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, meeting the spiritual teacher Meher Baba aboard the ship Conte Rosso in April 1932.
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Ernest Wood continued to reside in India until the close of World War II, when he relocated to the United States.
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Ernest Wood become disillusioned about the future of the Theosophical Society and began to study the yoga classics.
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Ernest Wood was defeated by George Arundale, one of Charles Leadbeater's close allies, in a campaign that Wood later described as unfair and questionable.
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In India, Ernest Wood had encountered many yogis and Hindu pundits.
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Ernest Wood practiced celibacy throughout his life and would have no children.
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Ernest Wood did not officially become a student of any Indian master.
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Ernest Wood held sway over people in a small village, and poisoned Wood as an act of revenge for his exposure of her.
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Ernest Wood could eat little solid food for the rest of his life following the poisoning, and almost died.
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Ernest Wood spent his remaining years writing and publishing on yoga.
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Ernest Wood moved to the United States, where he served for a short time as president and dean of the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, and later moved to Houston, Texas, working for the University of Houston.
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Shortly after his arrival in India, Ernest Wood had begun translating the Indian classics, such as the Garuda Purana.
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Ernest Wood's writings contain many references to his own practical experiences in these matters.
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Ernest Wood accepted it and lived there from 1939 to 1948, During those years, many Montessori schools were founded in India.
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Ernest Wood was president of the school's first Board of Trustees.
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Ernest Wood died on 17 September 1965, days after finishing his translation of Shankara's Viveka Chudamani, which was posthumously published and entitled The pinnacle of Indian thought.