Celestial City
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the goal of Christian's journey in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; the heavenly Jerusalem.
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In that book, the pilgrim extricates himself from the Slough of Despond—essentially a giant water hazard—and makes his way to the aptly named Celestial City.
From Golf Digest • Dec. 17, 2018
But, unlike the stricken Christian, Van Dyk does not reach his Celestial City.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017
Bunyan’s allegorical City of Destruction — and also, perhaps, the Celestial City that is its antithesis — is incarnated by modern Los Angeles.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2016
This motif, sounding like an ecstatic awakening, obsessed him: he used it in The Pilgrim's Progress to denote the Christian pilgrim arriving at his goal, the Celestial City.
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2010
Christian—Is this the way to the Celestial City?
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley
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