The unbroken path continues after every collective path of higher order has been closed. The residual man continues along the permanent path even though the age offers no confirming direction and no shared track. The path itself remains intact. Only the collective structures that once marked it have disappeared.
Young men who still seek a higher direction often look for residual schools or residual methods that will mark the path for them. Most of those methods have already been reshaped by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external marking. It continues from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary continuation is the residual form of the older traditional path that once ordered both the individual and the civilization. The man who keeps the path present already performs the residual act. That act does not require a collective track to remain real.
Keep the unbroken path. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which higher direction is publicly marked. The residual act is to keep the permanent measure effective in every concrete decision. That effectiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.