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“Like Fire and Powder”

This chapter reviews the initial questions of the study, including how interpretations of Babalon relate to hegemonic notions of gender; and whether Babalon has the potential to function according to what Rosi Braidotti denotes as a “feminist figuration,” which indicates alternate ways of envisioning and inhabiting femininity. I conclude that the Babalon discourse appears to function in this way, providing a feminine symbolic that especially women and LGBTQ esotericists can identify with and indicating the desirability of nonmonogamous, nonreproductive, and sometimes also nonheterosexual modalities. This symbolic may not be equally accessible to all feminine subjects, because the Babalon discourse is historically situated and contingent on the social positionality of many contemporary esotericists. In summarizing the findings of this study, I assert that the Babalon discourse—lauding the propensity for erotic undoing—nonetheless profoundly challenges Western notions of bourgeois, masculine, and bounded subjectivity.