A Residence for the Soul, part 1: Many Mansions

Abbey of Villelongue, France

Photograph by the author

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 

—King James Bible, John 14: 2,3

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