The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the assumption of his Mother infinitely absurd, crumbled to chaos the gates and palaces of the New Jerusalem, and in their places gave to man a wilderness of worlds.

Endeavor to create heaven on earth and turn your heart into the new Jerusalem

... Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...