Reasons to ... and not to ...

Alchemists are generally concerned with basic things :

Gold to be rich and not having to work. Health. Long life, rejuvenation. Sometime Enlightenment, wisdom. Sometime psychic powers. Sometime Ascension.

But, if you do gold, and make money, more than probably you'll get shot, or found suicided in your car or home. ORMUS community knows very well that the Cartel of the Metals kill people when they try to sell their production.

Anyway, imagine you make gold and with the right connexions you sell it, you have plenty of money. Good.

What will you do ?

You'll do what you are already enclined to do.

The genie of the lamp will give you what you desire : If you are enclined to material things, you'll whant a big house, fiesta all nights maybe, girls, big cars, travels, food, alcohol, marijuana. This can shorten your life. Anyway it could be cool to materialize your "green" moments, but there is a limit.

Money is a threat for people with no wisdom, a threat for themselve and others.

Finally you kill your health, and your friends are not true friends. They just are parasites. Generally we have a very small handle of friends, I mean true one, the one that ask news about you and your life, and you have a good connexion with them. But party friends, are not friends.

If ever you have some heart and wisdom, you can use your money for people. But it's rare. Then you can help poors, orphans, etc. Lot of work to do there. Flamel is one of the best example. During a whole century after celebrations where made in his areas after his "death".

Now, of course you become lazy, and spiritually inactive with all this food and fiestas... karma is karma you know. You reap what you saw.

Now, let's talk about health. No reasons here to avoid health IMO. It's a blessing to be in good health.

Seek health and seek to help people attain health.

Long life and rejuvenation ... fool is the one that wants such a thing. Have you observed lattely this world ? Do you really want to stay in such a mess for 200 years more ?? Are you crazy ? Come on ! Never you'll have the possiblity to stay alive such a long time without becoming a lab rat, I mean, scientists will not understand why you stay such a long time alive. They'll study you etc.

And what if you stay hiden will you ask me ? No no no, impossible. Even a beggar has an identity. You can't really fake that for a long time. And money is also a problem. you have to work, you have to pay taxes, you have to live somewhere. You need an identity. You are followed, registered, etc, soon we will have an RFID   (radio frequency identification) under the skin. Big Brother is watching you, remember this.

Will you try all your looooonnnng life to escape the governments ? No.

It's very hard to f*** the system, they always get you.

And rejuvenation ... you have to quit everything you have, the place you live, your job, etc. To go where ? To do what ? To do like Mc leod in Highlander films ? It's Hollywood ! It's a film !

Wisdom is so important, because it helps you to grow and go deeper in your understanding of the spiritual/material laws at play in the Big Illusion. It gives you the keys to achieve your cycle. Wisdom is spiritual candy.

Now, enlightenment, no reasons to not seek enlightenment. But sometime, people are not ready. You still have to pay the bills like says Jeff Foster, and he is so right ! You still have to deal with the mess of this world, and the karma is not totally erased.

To erase all karma, you need to put spiritual teflon in you nadis and chakras. Soma must fil your entire body.

Soma is not easilly triggered, it is a very wet and cold etheral liquid dripping in your system from Chandra/Bindu/Soma Chakra. Very special techniques are used to trigger it.

Ascension : That's the real deal. Now we speak. That's not an erzats of Alchemy, here we deal with the matter, with the body, we transcend it. It's Spiritual Suicide. Enlightenment is a first step (bliss, presence, vacuity all this stuff is a preparation for this). Here we deal with the death of the physical structure. It must go into Light.

That's the MAIN concern of Alchemy, it should be the MAIN concern of Alchemists ! 

The rest, money, health, rejuvenation, enlightenments are helpers and minor steps to achieve this.

Alchemy, depending what you seek in it, can be a great helper. That's like everything. A knife can kill, a knife can save your life.

You have everything to win seeking wisdom, health, enlightenment and Ascension.
Money, rejuvenation and long life are not that important. They could be seen as minor gifts.