Hermetic initiation is the conscious descent into the depths of the human being all the way to the initial state. When we follow the Hermetic method and meditate on symbols and images, we transcend the external facts of the symbols to descend to the “vital, mental, and spiritual realities that the symbols and images reveal.” (Valentin Tomberg, in Meditations on the Tarot

These deeper realities correspond to the deeper levels of consciousness: to the life force (etheric body), the soul (mental body), and spirit (causal body).” Tomberg explains:

Descend into depths of your soul, down to its roots, to the source of feeling, will, and intelligence. Then you will know.

This knowing is certainty, the metaphysical certainty that Guenon also recognizes. And the root — which transcends feeling, will, and intelligence — is the initial state, the “image and likeness of God”. This is the same state the Guenon calls the Primordial State, and Evola the God-man.