Then why call it a house of learning, if the teachings don’t matter?
I think once we view our mere participation in the symbolic rites of the endowment and sealing ceremonies as the proof we’ve received the literal power of heaven, we may be missing the mark and have probably received our reward.
If walking through the veil of the temple is not the same thing as piercing the actual veil, and beholding the Lord while in the flesh (I mean, Elohim, *cough*), then what does that tell us about the nature of the building we’re in?
Perhaps it was always meant to be what the Lord originally revealed it to be early on in Kirtland — an academy of sorts for learning how to realize those promises that come through the gospel covenant.