Clarity beyond the cycle is the residual capacity to see according to the permanent measure after every collective clarity of higher order has been clouded. The residual man continues to see from that measure even though the age offers no confirming vision. The clarity itself remains intact. Only the collective conditions that once made its force public have disappeared.
Young men who still seek a clear view often look for residual teachings or residual authorities that will keep the vision alive for them. Most of those teachings have already been emptied by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external clarity. It continues as the permanent vision from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary clarity is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of right seeing. The man who continues to see from the measure already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective confirmation to remain real.
See clearly. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which the higher vision is publicly shared. The residual act is to keep the permanent measure decisive in every concrete judgment. That decisiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.