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This earthly existence would not mature without difficulties if it were prolonged much beyond a hundred years for reasons that it is pointless to address here, but a hundred years is insufficient to obtain a definitive victory. It has therefore been necessary to grant us a longer span of time, and that segmented by intervals similar to the intervals between the dreams of deep sleep and daydreams. Each type of dream may be called a death. Certainly each existence is accompanied by forgetfulness of those that have preceded it, but this forgetfulness is providential. It facilitates evolution because with complete memory it would be difficult to change on this plane of existence. When we have finally awakened a sufficient number of times to achieve the purpose of our efforts, the sanctification, we die one final time and return no more. It is then that we are judged finally and relegated to our place in heaven or purgatory. If, on the contrary, in each existence we descend lower and lower until we reach a point at which no hope of salvation exists any longer, we will die one last time and go to hell, but this is a most unusual occurrence. (A point from the Rosicrucian order site.)

In the paragraph above, it states that reincarnation shares similarities to daydreams, dreams, and sleep which is like mini deaths by which one may re-emerge. According to the above, one cannot fully complete his/her mission on earth in one interval, i.e., in one life. Accordingly, that is why, he/she may have other opportunities to make the necessary corrections during another period of life, unless the unimaginable may happen where one actually gets worse each time, and therefore, finally dies.

In the true Christian faith, Christ gave us the church and the holy sacraments. By these, we ought to live in the here and now, and not in a fairy tale account of human recycling.