The demand that remains binding continues after every external obligation that once enforced it has been abolished. The residual man continues to answer that demand even though the age no longer recognizes its legitimacy and no longer supplies any external pressure toward it. The demand itself is permanent. Only the collective conditions that once made obedience a shared duty have vanished.
Young men who still feel the pressure of a higher standard often search for residual groups or residual authorities that will make the demand easier to carry. Most of what they encounter has already compromised the standard in order to survive inside the age. The residual path does not wait for such support. It answers the demand from the interior center that still perceives it.
This solitary answer is the residual form of the older traditional obligation that once ordered the higher castes. The man who continues to answer already performs the residual duty. That duty does not become less binding because it is no longer collective.
Answer the demand that remains binding. Do not wait for the age to restore the structures that once made the higher measure a public reality. The residual act is to keep the permanent imperative present in a world that has abolished every external reminder of it. That presence is the continuity of the higher type.