Christ's "acceptance of death" corresponds with the Islamic doctrine of al-fanaa (extinction of existence). In the language of the Sufis al-fanaa designates "the extinction of individual limitation in the state of Union with God." The doctrine of al-fanaa is surpassed, so to speak, by fanaa ul-fanaa, the "extinction of extinction," and here we have the two levels of "acceptance of death" that correspond to True Man and Transcendent Man, to Christ's Resurrection and Ascension. Meister Eckhart talks of the "negation of negation": "Unity is the negation of negation. All creatures carry a negation in themselves; one denies that it is the other. [...] But God has negation of negation; he is one and denies every other, for outside God there is nothing."