[ERCougar]

Originally Posted by Archaea

The reaction you get is a little silly.

As a missionary, you can generally ask a GA any two questions about temple symbolism, but usually you can't think of intelligent enough questions due to your unfamiliarity with it.

The answer you get is, "until you receive personal revelation, we can't tell you."

How I usually translate it is, "you don't really understand and wish to conceal your ignorance."

There are lots of great stuff, organizational, symbolically and just in terms of peace. But most of your leaders are not temple scholars and probably know less than they are willing to admit. The temple presidents often have good insights and scholars often do.

First lesson: enjoy what you can.

Second, be ready ready to learn piece by piece.

Third, just listen to flows as it flows.

Fourth, as goofy as it sounds, study some of the Egyptian temple rituals, to gather what some think are related.

Overall, it can be a cleansing experience and one of peace.

I know fairlds.org gets a bad rap around here, and I don't know if it's deserved or not, but I think they do a good job discussing some of the interesting aspects of temple worship. They touch on some of these aspects Arch is talking about.