The differentiated stance revisited is the residual form of the position first clarified in the middle of the sequence. The stance is the same. The conditions under which it must be held have been clarified more sharply by the deeper material. The man remains differentiated by the continuous decision to orient himself according to the permanent measure rather than according to the dissolving currents of the age.
Differentiation is not a fixed achievement. It is a residual practice. Each day the forces of the age attempt to reabsorb the man into the horizontal average. Each day the residual decision must be renewed. The renewal is the continuity of the type. Without it the earlier orientation dissolves into residual adaptation.
Young men who have followed the sequence sometimes treat the differentiated stance as a completed identity. The residual path rejects that treatment. Identity in the residual age is never completed. It is the continuous result of the decision to remain oriented. The decision itself is the residual form of the higher will.
Renew the differentiated stance under residual conditions. Do not treat it as a finished state. The man who continues the decision is already living the deeper continuity of the type that the entire sequence has been forming.