Action from the residual center is the capacity to move from the permanent measure after every collective center of higher order has been erased. The residual man continues to act from that center even though the age offers no confirming axis. The action itself remains intact. Only the collective centers that once made its direction public have disappeared.
Young men who still feel the demand for directed action often look for residual causes or residual movements that will keep the center 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 axis. It continues as the permanent action from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary action is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of right action. The man who continues to act from the center already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective centers to remain real.
Act from the center. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which higher action is collectively oriented. The residual act is to keep the permanent measure decisive in every concrete movement. That decisiveness is the continuity of the higher type under residual conditions.