The Latter-day Saint initiatory ceremony is a royal and priestly coronation ceremony. God’s greatest goal is for us to return to His presence and become like Him. This is articulated in the temple as becoming a King or a Queen, and Priest or a Priestess in God’s kingdom, and the initiatory ceremony prepares us or initiates us for that royal and sacred future. . In the initiatory ceremony, we are symbolically washed similar to how ancient Israelite priests were washed to spiritually cleanse and p