Orientation as permanent act is the residual capacity to keep direction decisive after every collective orientation of higher order has been erased. The residual man continues to orient from the permanent measure even though the age offers no confirming horizon. The orientation itself remains intact. Only the collective horizons that once made its direction public have disappeared.
Young men who still sense a higher direction often look for residual guides or residual traditions that will keep the orientation alive for them. Most of those guides have already been clouded by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external horizon. It continues as the permanent act from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary orientation is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of the way. The man who continues to orient from the measure already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective confirmation to remain real.
Orient as act. 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.