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Alchemistic Girl
Translation by Ayu Ohseki |
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The enigmas of nature are as of yet impossible to decipher; that is to say, they remain enigmas. Yet there were those who attempted to brute-force the mysteries of the invisible world. There were also those who strove to explain the mysteries of future affairs. |
The fire-smelting
Bellows
Philosophical
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Flames
Smelt
They procure life
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Into the aludel of time
We threw in and created
My stone
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Yes
We created and live on as
Ourselves
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| It is a narrow and arduous path permitted to only a handful of masters. Many are those who lose their way on an incorrect road and encounter naught but disappointment, errors, and falsehoods. However, before long, within the dark science buildings of the Middle Ages, their undertakings—the huge, silent, and immutable rose windows—emitted a brilliance. It was as though the cathedral transepts, where one would doze off far removed from the mundane world, were bathed in an indescribable light.
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Or at least, that’s how one of my fathers, Heinrich Khunrath, depicted the arduous reality of the alchemists in an illustration in “Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom)”. Indeed, the Citadel of Alchemy was divided into twenty-one sections. An alchemist of the fifteenth century and another one of my fathers, Nicholas Valois, said, “God bequeathed His holy secrets unto me through my prayers, which made themselves properly useful through my good intentions. When the people lose their purity of heart, they lose science.” However, it was because he knew the secrets that he could never actualize them. |
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To they who have received a blessed secret formula and slipped out the 21st Citadel Gate, two meticulous warnings give welcome: “Pray as occultism would have you do; do your work as physical chemistry would have you do.” |
If this is hypocrisy, then with metamorphosis
We shall not love, but make autoplasty
Make something unique
Create
Our one and only, unique selves
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| Furthermore, to they who have slipped out the 21st Citadel Gate, they shall have turned seven Citadel corners, which correspond to the seven manipulations of metamorphosis. There they shall reach the objective of their final hopes, the Philosopher’s Stone, which is guarded by an enormous dragon that shall relinquish it unto them. Me? I accomplished it in a day. The Great Work. The great ambition... |
Because I am a girl
I know the astrology
Of alchemy’s
Secret day
That moment is while
The Sun is in Aries
And the Moon is in Taurus
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Because I am a girl
I wish for my dream to come true
And so cast off false dreams
With alchemy’s
Secret arts
Le Demosterion de
Roch le Baillif
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| There is a matter of grave importance. I refer to the identities of the creation of space and alchemy’s Great Work. This is why the alchemists repeat to themselves: “The sequential process of world metamorphosis is identical to an animal’s pregnancy. It’s inconceivable that our generation of metal could be anything but its equal. Therefore, we follow this precept: ‘Mother Nature is our one and only master. We have no need whatsoever for books; to succeed, it’s enough to open our eyes and mimic Her.’” Because they’re simply imitating nature, alchemists purport to be philosophers and sages. They call their science philosophy, and label the results of their work the Philosopher’s Stone. |
I am sulfur
All that
Burns
I am mercury
I rise as smoke
And sublimate
What remains is salt and me
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The tale of the rose
Will awaken
The hidden knowledge
I call the wind awake
And whirl it about
I am reborn
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With new life
I grow
Ah~
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I am an alchemist (Medieval)
Lighting a flame on my birthday
Throw the day of my birth into the aludel
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I am an alchemist (Medieval)
I change, and it is my birthday
Throw the fact of my birth into the aludel
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La fillette alchimique
The alchemistic girl
La fillette alchimique
The alchemistic girl
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Shoujo Renkinjutsushi
As Provided by Ayu Ohseki |
| Shizen no nazo ha izen toshite handoku fukanou, sunawachi nazo no mama da. Fukashi no sekai no shinpi ni wakeirou to shita mono mo ita. Mirai no jibutsu no shinpi wo tokiakasou to tsutometa mono mo ita. |
Hi fuku
Fuigo
Tetsugaku no
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Honoo
Seiren
Inochi eru
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Warera toki no kamado ni
Nagekomi tsukuru
Watashi no ishi
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Sou
Warera ha warera jishin wo
Tsukurite iku
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| Shousuu no tatsujin dake ni yurusareta konnan na semai michi. Ayamatta komichi ni mayoikonde, shitsubou to gobyuu to kyogen ni shika deawanakatta mono. Demo hodonaku chuusei no kagaku no kurai tatemono no naka ni atte, sorera no kuwadate ha, ookiku shizuka na fuhen no baramado ga, zokusekai kara tooi tokoro de madoromu daiseidou no yokurou wo emoiwarenu hikari de hitasu you ni, kousai wo hanatte itta no da.
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Sou itta, renkinjutsushi-tachi no konnan na jijitsu ga, watashi no chichi no hitori dearu Hainrihhi Kuunraato no “Eien no Chie no Enkeigekijou” no zuhan ni egakarete iru. Sou, nijuuichi ni kukaku-sareta renkinjutsu no jousai da. Juugo Seiki no renkinjutsushi deari, watashi no chichi no hitori demo atta Nikora Varoa ha “Kami ha sono seinaru himitsu wo, watashi no inori to sore wo rippa ni mochiiyou to iu watashi no yoki ito to ni yotte watashi ni ataerareta. Kokoro no junsui wo ushinau toki, hito ha kagaku wo ushinau” to. Daga, himitsu wo shitta kara tte sore wo jitsugen-suru koto ha dekinai. |
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Kouun na hiden wo uke, nijuuichibanme no jousai no mon wo nukedereta mono ni ha, “Shinpigaku-teki ni inori, butsurikagaku-teki ni shigoto wo se yo” to iu futatsu no shuutou na chuukoku ga kare wo mukaeru. |
Gizen nara hensei nite
Ai-suru koto naki jikokeisei wo
Yuiitsu naru mono
Tada hitotsu no
Yuiitsu naru jishin wo tsukure
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| Sara ni nijuuichibanme no jousai no mon wo nukedereta mono ni ha, hensei nana sousa ni taiou-suru nanatsu no jousai no kado wo megurasare, saigo no nozomi no mokuteki dearu, kyodai na ryuu ni mamorareta “Kenja no Ishi” ni toutatsu-shi, ryuu yori sore wo tebanasareru. Watashi? Watashi ha ichinichi de kansui-shita wa. Ooi naru sagyou. Ooi naru yabou... |
Shoujo tote
Renkinjutsu no
Hijitsu no
Senseijutsu shiru
Sono shunkan to ha
Taiyou Hakuyoukyuu
Tsuki Kingyuukyuu
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Shoujo tote
Renkinjutsu no
Hijutsu
Gimu sutete
Masayume shiritashi
Rokku ru Baii no
Demosuterion
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| Juuyou na koto ga aru. Sore ha uchuu no souzou to renkinjutsu no ooi naru sagyou no douitsusei dearu. Dakara renkinjutsushi-tachi ha “sekai keisei no ichiren no katei ha, doubutsu no kaitai to douitsu deari, wareware no kinzoku seisei no sore mo kore to douyou de shika arienai. Sore yue ni, wareware ha «Jibun-tachi no yuiitsu no shujin ha shizen deari, shomotsu ha issai hitsuyou naku, seikou-suru tame ni ha me wo mihiraite shizen wo manereba juubun da»” to kurikaesu. Shizen wo akumade mohou-suru tokoro kara, renkinjutsushi ha jibun-tachi wo tetsugakusha, kenja to shoushi, sono kagaku wo tetsugaku, sono shigoto no seika wo Kenja no Ishi to yonda no dearu. |
Watashi ha iou
Moeru mono
Subete
Watashi ha suigin
Nobotte kemuri
Shouka
Nokoru mono ha shio to watashi
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Baramonogatari
Kakureta chie wo
Kakusei
Yobiokosu kaze
Uzumaku watashi
Sosei
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Arata na inochi wo mochite
Seichou-suru
A~
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Watashi renkinjutsushi (Mediivaru)
Tanjoubi ni hi wo okoshi
Tanjoubi wo kamado ni suroo in
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Watashi renkinjutsushi (Mediivaru)
Kawaru watashi no tanjoubi
Umareta jijitsu wo kamado ni suroo in
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Shoujo renkinjutsushi
Shoujo renkinjutsushi
Shoujo renkinjutsushi
Shoujo renkinjutsushi
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少女錬金術師
As Provided by Ayu Ohseki |
| 自然の謎は依然として判読不可能、すなわち謎のままだ。不可視の世界の神秘に分け入ろうとした者もいた。未来の事物の神秘を解き明かそうと努めた者もいた。 |
火吹く
鞴（ふいご）
哲学の
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炎
精錬
生命（いのち）得る
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われら時の竈に
投げ込み作る
わたしの石
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そう
われらはわれら自身を
作りて生く
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| 少数の達人だけに許された困難な狭い道。誤った小径に迷い込んで、失望と誤謬（ごびゅう）と嘘言にしか出会わなかった者。でもほどなく中世の科学の暗い建物の中にあって、それらの企ては、大きく静かな不変の薔薇窓が、俗世界から遠いところでまどろむ大聖堂の翼廊をえもいわれぬ光で浸すように、光彩を放っていったのだ。
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| ラートの『永遠の知恵の円形劇場』の図版に描かれている。そう、二十一に区画された錬金術の城塞だ。十五世紀の錬金術師であり、わたしの父の一人でもあった二コラ・ヴァロアは「神はその聖なる秘密を、わたしの祈りとそれを立派に用いようというわたしのよき意図とによってわたしに与えられた。心の純粋を失うとき、人は科学を失う」と。だが、秘密を知ったからってそれを実現することはできない。 |
| 幸運な秘伝を受け、二十一番目の城塞の門を抜け出れた者には、「神秘学的に祈り、物理化学的に仕事をせよ」という二つの周到な忠告が彼を迎える。 |
偽善なら変成にて
愛することなき自己形成を
唯一なるもの
唯一つの
唯一なる自身を創造（つく）れ
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| さらに二十一番目の城塞の門を抜け出れた者には、変成七操作に対応する七つの城塞の角を巡らされ、最後の望みの目的である、巨大な竜に守られた「賢者の石」に到達し、竜よりそれを手放される。わたし？ わたしは一日で完遂したわ。大いなる作業。大いなる野望… |
少女とて
錬金術の
秘日の
占星術知る
その瞬間とは
太陽白羊宮
月金牛宮
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少女とて
錬金術の
秘術
偽夢（ぎむ）棄てて
正夢（まさゆめ）知りたし
ロック・ル・バイイの
デモステリオン
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| 重要なことがある。それは宇宙の創造と錬金術の大いなる作業の同一性である。だから錬金術師たちは「世界形成の一連の過程は、動物の懐胎（かいたい）と同一であり、われわれの金属生成のそれもこれと同様でしかありえない。それゆえに、われわれは《自分たちの唯一の主人は自然であり、書物は一切必要なく、成功するためには目を見開いて自然を真似れば十分だ》」と繰り返す。自然をあくまで模倣するところから、錬金術師は自分たちを哲学者、賢者と称し、その科学を哲学、その仕事の成果を賢者の石と呼んだのである。 |
わたしは硫黄
燃えるもの
すべて
わたしは水銀
昇って煙
昇華
残るものは塩とわたし
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薔薇物語
隠れた知恵を
覚醒
呼び起こす風
渦巻くわたし
蘇生
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新たな生命（いのち）を持ちて
成長する
あ～
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わたし錬金術師（メディーヴァル）
誕生日に火を熾（おこ）し
誕生日を竃にスロー・イン
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わたし錬金術師（メディーヴァル）
変わるわたしの誕生日
産まれ事実を竃にスロー・イン
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少女錬金術師
少女錬金術師
少女錬金術師
少女錬金術師
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