The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the initiatic itinerary leads the being first to extinction in the divine Unity, which abolishes all perception of created things. But spiritual realization, if it is complete, arrives afterwards at the "second station of separation" where the being perceives simultaneously the one in the multiple and the multiple in the one.
'Abd al-Kader
(1807 - 1883)
Source: The Spiritual Writings of 'Abd al-Kader, 1995, Kitab al-Mawaqif, 57, page 205
