The path carried in isolation is the residual capacity to continue the higher way after every collective path of superior order has been erased. The residual man continues to walk that path even though the age offers no confirming company. The path 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 companions or residual traditions that will keep the path clear around them. Most of those traditions have already been clouded by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external company. It continues as the permanent way from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary path is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of the way. The man who continues to walk it already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective company to remain real.
Walk the path. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which the higher way is publicly marked. The residual act is to keep the permanent direction decisive in every concrete step. That decisiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.