Spiritual Exercises 
 
Nikos Kazantzakis. 
 
Simon and Schuster: 1960. First printing. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Wear along the top and bottom of the jacket. Sunning on the top fourth of the back of the jacket as well as the inside flaps. Crown and heel of the spine wrinkled. A tiny bit of foxing on the text block. Boards slightly bowed out from the boards. Trace foxing on the attached endpapers. 143 pages. Very good. 
 
The novels for which Kazantazakis won the Nobel Prize were as much a part of his spiritual project as this suite of epigrams, which ends with a Credo of freedom and final silence. Saviors of God is both wisdom and skeleton key to see how Kazantzakis' oeuvre was a life's labor to reach a clearer vision of God. Collected and released not long after his death. 
 
"Train your heart to govern as spacious an arena as it can.  Encompass through one century, then through two centuries, through three, through ten, through as many centuries as you can bear, the onward march of mankind. Train your eye to gaze on people moving in great stretches of time."