Houses of the Summerland?

How does this statement about houses in the spirit life correspond with what Steen or Ruisdal said on one occasion—Everyone builds his own house—you are building yours?

Were I to build my spirit house on the banks of some silvery lake, no one would dispute my right to do so—still, the house would not be considered mine, but my Master's. 

Do not imagine that we can ever be as we were when clothed with the mortal body. 

When I lived on earth, I could stand up, and looking across my extensive domain could say—These are mine! But here, our King is proprietor—the master of all, and he is not a hard master. 

When Steen spoke in that way to you, he meant to say—Take care because it is now you make your condition in the spirit world. If you live wickedly, your time given to folly, your house in this world will be a wretched hovel, but if you live well, then you will have erected a happy home—a house in accordance with your moral condition. 

He says you will remember what he told you of his condition when he entered the spirit world and his description of the strange house he had to live in.

—Hafed, Prince of Persia