Orientation that requires no confirmation is the residual capacity to maintain direction after every collective signpost of higher order has been erased. The residual man continues to move according to the permanent measure even though the age offers no verifying horizon. The orientation itself remains intact. Only the collective markers that once made its direction public have disappeared.
Young men who still sense a higher direction often look for residual authorities or residual communities that will confirm the path for them. Most of those authorities have already been reshaped by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external verification. It continues as the permanent direction from the interior center that still recognizes its force.
This solitary orientation is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of the way. The man who continues to hold it already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective confirmation to remain real.
Orient. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which the higher direction is publicly marked. The residual act is to keep the permanent measure decisive in every concrete step. That decisiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.