nothing is coincidence, just negligence. history repeats itself, and travels between fragments of memory in different timelines.
Holden appears in the mid-1800s, supposedly based on a real figure. Crowley is born in 1875, suspiciously close enough to imply nonlinear timeline overlap, if the Judge isn’t bound by time at all. Judge Holden is obsessed with violence as divine law, seeing war as the ultimate dance. Crowley taught "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" a system that dissolves external morality. Both are priests of chaos, masked as philosophers.
Holden is hairless, white, inhumanly intelligent, and physically monstrous. Crowley referred to himself as The Beast, claimed divine ancestry, and frequently altered his physical appearance to disturb and provoke.

>>40793897 (OP)
The Judge speaks all languages, has infinite knowledge, and never seems to age. Crowley traveled the world, practiced ceremonial magick, studied in Egypt, China, India, and claimed to channel beings beyond time like Aiwass. Holden dances naked at the end of the world, immortal and free. Crowley wrote The Book of the Law after a mystical encounter in Cairo and that book describes an age ruled by the Crowned and Conquering Child, the one who ends the old world. Both are symbols of the anti-Christ consciousness: not “evil” in the cartoon sense, but liberated from morality, serving only force, will, and the destruction of innocence as a form of revelation. Holden and Crowley both speak in riddles, quote ancient texts, blaspheme joyfully, and smile at murder. Not out of sadism, but as a recognition of the divine law of entropy. Blood Meridian is full of Gnostic subtext. The desert is spiritual. The war is alchemical. And Judge Holden? He might just be the Aeon of Horus in flesh. Crowley said this new Aeon would be ruled by a god who destroys to awaken. Crowley believed in incarnation of spiritual forces. He may have believed he was Holden, or became him in visions or rituals. McCarthy may have tapped into the same current — intentionally or psychically.

>>40793897 (OP)
all of this... and you look like Babidi from dragon ball.

>>40793912
He looks like the final boss of Half
Life

>>40793897 (OP)
The Judge symbolizes the violent westard expansion of the United States and humanity's tendency towards brutality