 They believe that symbols are put in temples to represent the history of the church, the history of temples, and to teach the individual mind concerning God's teachings, which increases their knowledge of God's teachings.Temple symbolism provides opportunity for members to receive personal revelation, answer questions that individual members had been praying about, reveal new knowledge, reveal new questions, and provide peace.Members believe that attending temples, participating in ordinances, and paying attention to symbolic meaning within those ordinances/symbols, gives them new knowledge, brings them closer to God, and closer in understanding God's plan of salvation at higher levels in member's individual part of that plan.