The Three Ages Of Man

Birth to Age 20 years: The childhood of the mind and the religion of self-delusion (Disneyanity).

Age 20 to 60 years: Disillusion and its many bewilderments.

Age 60 years to Death: Creative prayer.

"For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and of causing to exist, that is, a means of causing the God who reveals Himself to appear, of "seeing" Him, not to be sure in His essence, but in the form which precisely He reveals by revealing Himself by and to that form. This view of Prayer takes the ground from under the feet of those who, utterly ignorant of the nature of the theophanic Imagination as Creation, argue that a God who is the "creation" of our Imagination can only be "unreal" and there can be no purpose in praying to such a God. For it is precisely because He is a creation of the imagination that we pray to him, and that He exists. Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. By virtue of the sharing of roles, the divine Compassion, as theophany and existentiation of the universe of beings, is the Prayer of God aspiring to issue forth from His unknownness and to be known, whereas the Prayer of man accomplishes this theophany because in it and through it the "Form of God" (surat al-Haqq) becomes visible to the heart, to the Active Imagination which projects before it, in its Qibla, the image, whose receptacle, (epiphanic form, mazhar) is the worshipper's being in the measure of its capacity. God prays for us (yusalli 'alayna), which means that He epiphanizes himself insofar as He is the God whom and for whom we pray (that is, the God who epiphanizes Himself for us and by us). We do not pray to the Divine Essence in its hiddenness; each faithful ('abd) prays to his Lord (Rabb), the Lord who is in the form of his faith."

--Henry Corbin, Alone With The Alone, p. 248.