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"Every Mandaean must own a simple white ceremonial garment, called a rasta. It must be worn during most baptismal rites,〔Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, ''The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern People'', pg.81, Oxford University Press (2002) ISBN 0-19-515385-5〕 religious ceremonies, and during periods of uncleanliness. It signifies the purity of the world of light. The rasta is worn equally by the laypersons and the priests. If a Mandaean dies in clothes other than a rasta, it is believed that they will not reenter the "World of Light"," 〔()〕 unless the rite "Ahaba d Mania" ('Giving of Garments') be performed "for those who have died not wearing the ritual garment."〔() "Glossary", in E. S. Drouwer, ''The Mandaeans of Iran and Iraq: Their Cults, Customs, Magic Legends, and Folklore'', Gorgias Press (2002) ISBN 1-931956-49-9〕 The rasta is expected to be transmuted after death into a "garment of glory" for the soul ("the Perfecter of Souls ... will come out toward you and clothe your soul in a garment of radiance"〔(The Gnostic Society Library, Mandaean Scriptures and Fragments: Ginza Rba, The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans )〕) – this is equivalent to the perispirit. A Mandaic hymn states : "I became a garment to the worlds of Light ... As for the chosen righteous, who put me on (as a garment), their eyes were filled with Light."〔Werner Foerster, ''Gnosis: A Selection of Gnostic Texts, Vol. 2 – Coptic and Mandean Sources'', Oxford University Press (1974) ISBN 0-19-826434-8〕 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rasta (Mandaeism)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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