Form of the residual path is the residual capacity to maintain interior shape after every collective form of higher order has been dissolved. The residual man continues to hold that form even though the age offers no confirming structure. The form itself remains intact. Only the collective structures that once made its presence public have disappeared.
Young men who still seek a firm shape often look for residual disciplines or residual traditions that will supply the form from outside. Most of those disciplines have already been emptied by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external structure. It continues as the permanent form from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary form is the residual expression of the older traditional knowledge of limit and style. The man who continues to hold it already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective structures to remain real.
Hold the form. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which higher shape is publicly structured. The residual act is to keep the permanent measure decisive in every concrete decision. That decisiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.