Very similar to birth, the other portal through which all of us must pass is death. It marks the end of our mortal opportunity to make many decisions for ourselves. Our greatest chance to prove ourselves in following the Plan will be behind us.
In death, we leave behind all the physical things that we accumulated during life: money, possessions, physical addictions, and the like. The Plan was meant to lift our vision past mere physical pleasures and focus more on our ultimate reward. As the common saying goes: “You can’t take it with you.”
The memories of our lives before birth will be restored to us in preparation for the time that the Christ will judge how well we followed the Plan.
This ‘I’ symbolizes our death, the portal between our mortal lives and the life beyond. It also represents a barrier that the physical things of mortality do not follow you beyond death.