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groups, and generations of stu<strong>de</strong>nts,<br />
whom he affectionately called his<br />
"cohorts", occupied most of his time and<br />
energy, and over the years they were very<br />
numerous. All of them benefited from his<br />
work as a translator and as a mentor, with<br />
whom he shared his enthusiasm, interest<br />
and knowledge not only in Wicca and<br />
Correllian Wicca, but in many of the topics<br />
that were of his great interest and specialization:<br />
the tarot, magickal cooking,<br />
astrology, the world of fairies, herbs, astral<br />
travel, magick, among others.<br />
dreaming, and observing the world<br />
around.<br />
Príncipe Therión <strong>de</strong> Fira argued that a<br />
magician is not only ma<strong>de</strong> with the theory<br />
studied, but that we should be practitioners,<br />
live by experimentation, and not be<br />
library witches. Because the true magician<br />
is ma<strong>de</strong> according to his or her practice,<br />
exercising with spells and rituals,<br />
practicing divination, observing nature,<br />
analyzing each cycle, meditating and<br />
He <strong>de</strong>fined himself with these words:<br />
"I am a retired teacher who has been able<br />
to <strong>de</strong>vote himself to these studies,<br />
to Wiccan thought and philosophy, as well<br />
as to magick. The magical world has been<br />
a permanent interest in me since I was a<br />
teenager, so I've been a magical practitioner<br />
and studious for a long time,<br />
but the Correllian approach has allowed<br />
me to see things with structure,<br />
something I had a peremptory need: structure<br />
of knowledge".