From FinnegansWiki
- celestial: heavenly
- caeli: (Latin) heavens
- 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
- 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
