The traditional forms have dissolved. Orientation must now occur without them. The higher type continues to orient himself by the permanent measure even though that measure no longer finds expression in the institutions, the authorities, or the collective life of the age. The independence of orientation from forms is the residual condition of the differentiated individual.
Young men who still sense the vertical often look for remaining forms that might support their orientation. Most of what they find is either theatrical or already compromised by the forces of dissolution. The residual path does not depend on such forms. It continues the orientation from within, accepting that the external supports are gone.
This independence is not a liberation into formlessness. It is the continuation of form at the only level still available. The man who orients himself independently of external structures already carries the residual hierarchy. That hierarchy remains real even when no collective body recognizes it.
Maintain orientation without waiting for forms to return. The age will not restore them in the shape they once had. The residual act is to keep the vertical criterion present in a world that has no place for it. That presence is the continuity of the type.