Residual force of the vertical is the capacity to exert the permanent upward pressure after every collective force of higher order has been dissolved. The residual man continues to exert that force even though the age offers no confirming field for it. The force itself remains intact. Only the collective fields that once made its action public have disappeared.
Young men who still feel the upward demand often look for residual movements or residual causes that will keep the force alive around them. Most of those movements have already been emptied by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external fields. It continues as the permanent pressure from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary force is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of the ascending path. The man who continues to exert it already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective fields to remain real.
Exert the force. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which the higher pressure is collectively sustained. 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.