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Perception is the boundary between the two, where our thoughts come in contact with the creative thoughts outside. Thus with a thought that we have we cannot work directly on life, but on the consciousness which in the outer world is itself thought.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XVII","site_heading":"Actions, Words, and Thoughts: The Three Karmic Spheres","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Was die Kombination der Wahrnehmungen ergibt, das ist, daß die Wahrnehmungen zuerst aufgebaut sind durch Gedanken, die wir herausschälen: die Naturgesetze. Diese sind nichts anderes als Gedanken; der schöpferische, der Heilige Geist ist es. Die Wahrnehmung ist die Grenze zwischen beiden, wo sich unsere Gedanken berühren mit den schaffenden Gedanken draußen. 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