C. Anarchist Wisdom Yoga Mat

Anarchist Wisdom Yoga Mat

The circle and the goat. Unity and the knowledge they called dangerous.

The top panel is the image they spent centuries trying to prevent. Hands — every shade, every color of the spectrum — locked together in a circle around the anarchist A, crossed with something older and deeper than the punk movement that later adopted it. The symbol of no masters. The structure that has no head and therefore cannot be decapitated. A.R.A. at the base because the brand was always built on this premise — that art is one of the last forms of organization that doesn't require a permit, a hierarchy, or a leader to be effective.

The colors aren't decoration. The rainbow of hands is the reminder that the division was always the weapon. That the ones they kept separated by every mechanism available — race, class, religion, nationality, language — are the same ones who become ungovernable the moment they recognize the circle and step into it together. The anarchist symbol glows at the center like a sun that was always there waiting for enough hands to complete the ring around it.

The bottom panel is the wisdom they needed you to fear so you would never pick it up. Baphomet in precise etched detail — the goat crowned with the all-seeing eye triangle, arms crossed, holding a scroll. Not evil. Never evil. The symbol of duality, of above and below, of the hermetic principle that what exists in the cosmos exists in the body and what exists in the body exists in the cosmos. The scroll in his arms is the knowledge. The eye above him is the perception. The horns are the antennae.

They needed you to fear the goat so you would never read the scroll.

Unity on one end of the mat. Wisdom on the other. The two things that together make a people truly ungovernable.

Rolled out by anyone who picked up the scroll anyway.

A.R.A. — Artistic Revolt Apparel

They feared the circle and the goat for the same reason — both of them pointed back to you.

.: Materials: polyester, rubber
.: One size: 24″ x 70" (61cm x 178 cm)
.: Microfiber suede top
.: Natural rubber bottom
.: Edge to edge print
.: Lightweight
.: 0.12" (3mm) thick
.: Please note: For longer-lasting color vibrancy, please keep the mat away from direct sunlight