The "theosophical poetry" of Salvadora Medina Onrubia

Abstract

Out of the literary works of Salvadora Medina Onrubia (1894-1972), her poetry, almost entirely gathered in two books published in the 1920s (La rueca milagrosa, 1921; El misal de mi yoga, 1929), is still the least explored, in part due to its proximity to the theosophical imaginary, little understood until today. Recovering this key will allow us to notice the continuities between both books and the way in which, between them, a subject-female poet who declares herself a teacher, intermediary of the great spiritual truths, which she has reached through dispossession, pain and the purgation, is deployed.