17 AUGUST 1951, Page 4

Having indicated last week that there was more to say

about the Nazarene College (Tottenham, London, N.15), which gives diploma-degrees in Psychotherapy, Metaphysics and Associated Sciences (are psychotherapy and metaphysics associated?) based on the Science of Thalamopathy and Psychology, and publishes a syllabus for, among others, graduates of the diplomate of Thalamopathy—having given what was in effect an undertaking, I must clearly implement it. But it is al) rather confusing, for while the Nazarene College and the College of Spiritual Science and School of Psychology and Psychotherapy seem in essentials identiCal, the latter is rurally domiciled, not at Tottenham, N.15, but at 3 Church Street, Ewell, Surrey. One of the things that the Naiarene College should, I think, add to its repertoire is orthography, for referring to the Most Honourable Lord Doctor Leon Checkernian, who supported and sealed its Charter in 1890 (" on April 23rd of 1878, the Rev. Leon Checkemian was consecrated Bishop of Malatia in the great Cathedral of Malatia ") its prospectus observes, " having stated the rightful and authorative position of Dr. Checkemian....." and explains a little later that in " 1876-7 Dr. Checkemian in the reforming of the Ancient British Church dating from A.D. 33 (founded by Carractacus [sic] about 500 years before Augustine)." If, as is implied, the Ancient British Church was Christian it was commendably quick off the mark, and the Nazarene College has discovered something that has so far eluded every reputable historian.