Accepting one’s own suffering can relieve others’ burden of sin

Evidence

Huysmans believed that it was possible through conscious acceptance of one’s own physical and spiritual sufferings to take some of the burden of sin and suffering from others. In his death agonies Huysmans was to pray for Massignon’s soul. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 393

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The doctrine of redemptive suffering through self-sacrifice parallels the ritual-sacrifice motif in ‘On Sacrifice’, and de Maistre’s altar-of-blood image is a direct intellectual ancestor of Dido’s and the sacrificial kings.
• XREF: De Maistre’s claim that the ‘whole earth, continually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar’ resonates with the sacrifice-as-stabilizer argument in the published article on sacrifice. — connects to: Medieval missionary zealotry could view a convert’s suicide as relief; Privileged innocence is purchased at the cost of others’ suffering — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 167

Related

• Medieval missionary zealotry could view a convert’s suicide as relief (similarity 0.82)