Much is represented symbolically in the LDS temple. The symbols are not the real thing. They represent the real thing. The symbols are outward things which thieves can break through and steal. The real thing cannot stolen, because the keeper of that gate is “the Holy One of Israel, and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate, for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name”. The real thing is protected but it can be represented by an outward symbol. To obtain the real thing, you have to live it. The true ceremony must be lived in order to be obtain what the temple ceremony only depicts through symbols.
For example, in the ceremony, Adam and Eve are given certain gifts from God in the garden of Eden before their departure. They are to be true and faithful to what they received there, even after they leave their paradise.
Each person came into this life with a something given to them by God. In that state of innocence, each child has something of beauty about them that came as a gift from God. After they grow up and experience the inevitable disappointment and harsh treatment in life, bringing with it real pain and sadness, each can look back and ask what has become of that gift which was given to them when they were in that original pure and innocent state. Do they still have what God gave them then? Have they been true and faithful to what God gave them when they were in their own personal “garden of Eden”? Or has that part of life been forgotten? Have the current difficulties caused them to dismiss the beauty they had in that state? Has it been lost or traded for other pursuits of life? Have you dismissed what God gave you back then, in favor of the pursuit of money, or other things? Have you been true and faithful to the good that the little innocent child you once were, possessed when you were in your own personal garden of innocence?