Mark 5:41 Meaning Taking the Child by the Hand

The girl lies as one dead, and the word spoken to her is arise. Within every person some stretch of aliveness has gone to sleep, dulled by years of routine and worry until it seems past waking. To the world it looks finished. Really it is only sleeping.

The touch of a hand and a single word are enough, because what is called forth was never gone. Awakening does not manufacture something new. It stirs a life that was always there under the numbness, rising the moment it is called by name.

The damsel is the young, tender soul fallen into the sleep of unconsciousness, the inner life lying as though dead while it only slumbers. The taking of the hand is the higher self reaching down to the dormant lower nature, and the command to arise is the waking word spoken into the deadened part of a person until awareness stirs and stands. The girl was never truly dead; she was in the deep unknowing from which the inner voice calls the sleeping faculty back to life and lifts it to its feet.

The raising of the maiden is the quickening of a soul sunk in numbness, called upright by the awakened power within.

Damsel: the young tender soul, the inner life sunk in the sleep of unconsciousness, seeming dead while it only slumbers Hand: the reaching contact of the higher self drawing the dormant lower nature back toward waking