When Jesus declares that the light of the body is the eye, he certainly means that light depends upon Mind, not upon the complex humors, lenses, muscles, the iris and pupil, constituting the visual organism.
Fevers are fears of various types. The quickened pulse, coated tongue, febrile heat, dry skin, pain in head and limbs, are pictures of mortal mind depicted on the body. The images, held in the unconscious mind, frighten conscious thought. The fever-picture drawn by millions of mortals, and depicted on the body through the transfer of thought from one mortal mind to another, rests at length on some individual mind, and becomes a belief of fear that ends in a belief of death, to be finally conquered by Life. Truth is always the victor. Sickness and sin fall by their own weight. Truth is the rock of ages, the headstone of the corner, and “upon whomsoever this stone shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.”
To prevent a fever, or to cure it mentally, let Spirit destroy this dream of sense. If you wish to heal by argument, find the type of the ailment, get its name, and array your mental plea against the physical. Argue with the patient (mentally, not audibly) that he has no fever, and conform the argument to the evidence.
If the body is material, it cannot, for that very reason, suffer with a fever. If the body is mental, or governed by mind, it will manifest only what mind impresses upon it. Therefore the efficient remedy is to destroy the patient's unfortunate belief, by arguing the opposite facts of harmonious being, — representing man as healthful instead of diseased; and showing it impossible for matter to suffer, to feel pain or heat, to be thirsty or sick. Paralyze fear, and you end the fever.
