Celescalating

• celestial: heavenly

• caeli: (Latin) heavens

• Ciel-scaling : climb to the sky, from the French 'Ciel' for sky.

• escalating: ascending or descending on an escalator; increasing rapidly in scale or intensity
  • celestial + escalating → escalating to the heavens → Jacob's Ladder (Genesis 28) → FW 026 Jacob's lettercrackers

• escalator: a moving staircase
  • New York’s Woolworth Building (→ waalworth) included escalators (a relatively new invention) as well as elevators

• Caelestius: disciple of the heretic Pelagius; Pelagius may have been Irish
  • Pelagius (11th Britannica, which was Joyce's source)
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• Coelestinus: regnal name of Pope Celestine I, who persecuted the Pelagians and sent Palladius to Ireland in 431
  • Celestine I (11th Britannica)
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake