228. [verse 2] 'And immediately I came to be in the spirit' signifies that he was admitted into a spiritual state, in which the things that come into existence in heaven are clearly visible. At n. 36 above it may be seen that 'to come to be in the spirit' is to be admitted into a spiritual state as a result of a Divine influx, also what the spiritual state is, and the quality thereof, and that in that state a man sees the things that are in the spiritual world as clearly as in the natural state of the body he sees the things that are of this world.