Interior law must now govern without any external code that once confirmed it. The residual man continues to live according to a law that the age no longer recognizes and no longer transmits. The law remains real because it is rooted in the permanent measure, not in the temporary structures of a civilization.
Young men who still sense a higher order often look for residual codes or residual communities that will make obedience to that order easier. Most of those codes have already been diluted to fit the horizontal requirements of the age. The residual path does not wait for such external supports. It maintains the interior law from the center that still perceives its authority.
This interior law is the residual form of the older traditional dharma that once ordered the higher life of entire civilizations. The man who keeps it effective already carries the residual rank. That rank does not depend on collective recognition to remain binding.
Live by interior law. Do not wait for the age to restore codes capable of supporting a vertical order. The residual act is to keep the permanent law present in a world that has abolished every external expression of it. That presence is the continuity of the higher type.