A Course in Miracles Topic - Victim

   The identity of being-a-victim is a favorite ego device for hiding responsibility for what is done within dreams. How could you be Co-Creator with God and yet have all these bad things happen to you? Who could blame you for what you have done compared with all the other sin within the World?

As long as you perceive the body as your reality, so long will you perceive yourself as lonely and deprived. And so long will you also perceive yourself as a victim of sacrifice, justified in sacrificing others.                                  T-15.XI.5:1,2.

Justice demands no sacrifice, for any sacrifice is made that sin may be preserved and kept. It is a payment offered for the cost of sin, but not the total cost. The rest is taken from another, to be laid beside your little payment, to "atone" for all that you would keep, and not give up. So is the victim seen as partly you, with someone else by far the greater part. And in the total cost, the greater his the less is yours. And justice, being blind, is satisfied by being paid, it matters not by whom.                   T-25.VIII.4:5-10.

[From Workbook lesson #32:] “I have invented the world I see.”… the theme of cause and effect. You are not the victim of the world you see because you invented it. You can give it up as easily as you made it up.                           W-32.1:1-3.

 ... He gives himself the consequences that he dreams he gave his brother. ... Thus does he fear his own attack, but sees it at another's hands. As victim, he is suffering from its effects, but not their cause. T-28.II.7:5,7,8.

[Workbook lesson #153:] “In my defenselessness my safety lies.”… you behold the Son of God as but a victim to attack by fantasies, by dreams, and by illusions he has made; yet helpless in their presence, needful only of defense by still more fantasies, and dreams by which illusions of his safety comfort him. W.153.5:5.