The path that continues alone is the residual capacity to remain on the higher way after every collective path of higher order has been erased. The residual man continues on that path even though the age offers no confirming road. The path itself remains intact. Only the collective roads that once made its direction public have disappeared.
Young men who still sense the higher way often look for residual roads or residual traditions that will keep the path alive around them. Most of those traditions have already been emptied by the horizontal forces that dominate the age. The residual path does not wait for external road. It continues as the permanent way from the interior center that still holds the vertical measure.
This solitary path is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of the ascending way. The man who continues on it already performs the residual act. That act does not require collective roads to remain real.
Continue on the path. Do not wait for the age to restore conditions in which the higher way 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.