The unbroken vertical under residual conditions is the capacity to keep the higher direction intact after every collective support has been dissolved. The residual man continues to hold that direction even though the age offers no confirming structure. The vertical itself remains intact. Only the collective supports that once made it public have disappeared.
Young men who still sense the force of a higher direction often look for residual structures or residual hierarchies that will keep the vertical alive for them. Most of those structures have already been leveled by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external support. It continues as the permanent direction from the interior center that still holds the measure.
This solitary vertical is the residual form of the older traditional axis that once ordered both the individual and the civilization. The man who continues to hold it already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective confirmation to remain real.
Hold the vertical. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which the higher direction is publicly structured. The residual act is to keep the permanent vertical decisive in every concrete decision. That decisiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.