How can we receive wisdom from God?

On one occasion Steen told me that paintings in the Spirit World were not produced as they are with us but by a mere volition on the part of the Spirit—now, are the things you have been speaking of the products of willpower exercised by Spirits?

No—we cannot by any amount of willing produce such things. He that created that small ball on which you now live—He Who created and Who upholds the mighty worlds that roll on forever in space created this place—the place I have spoken of—for you and for all. 

It was made to suit man in his varied conditions, as a moral being, godlike in his nature—a being ever progressing in wisdom, love and truth towards the Grand Source of all being. 

Had you a great love for change of scene (as I know I had), and had you also many opportunities of gratifying your desire, you would, notwithstanding all that you had been privileged to witness, still wish to see more. But, with such desires and capacities, suppose you were confined to one spot—not shut out from light and air—would it be the mere confinement or the lack of change that you would feel most irksome? Even so it is with the spirit ushered into the new state—into a state of light. 

Were that an unchanging state—a continuous round of the same duties, the same pleasures, the same scenes—how would you feel? 

You would be miserable—as much so as the poor darkened spirits, groping about amid their self-created gloom. 

No—the Great and Wise Spirit, our Creator knows best how to meet the wants of those whom He has formed.

—Hafed, Prince of Persia