This is Bhaktisiddhanta I have only kept some parts of it from the book A Ray of

Vishnu pge 97-99

The eternal transcendental forms of God that descend or are manifested according to the
gradual evolution of the aptitude for offering service by the totally purified soul quite aloof
from the regions of the body and mind, when man becomes the worshipper of the ultimate
reality at the loftiest stage of civilization, are never the idols of imagination or allegories
like unreal things manufactured in the mental factory of man or like imaginary animal
deities of the barbarians such as the tiger-god, serpent-god etc.
..When again the soul of a jiva, gains true wisdom of the transcendental region of God at
the feet of a representative of His, he begins to get back his pure essential nature gradually
unfolded, and Gods Transcendental, Eternal Forms appear as the objects of his worship
according to the comprehension of His service in the graded evolution of acceptance of
His protection, self-surrender or theism. The real, eternal and transcendental Divine
Forms reveal themselves to the pure souls according to the nature of their serving mood in
the evolutionary growth thereof. The only cause of these Divine Descents is the intense
mercy of God towards jivas.
We can notice the different stages of animal life from the invertebrates to the fully grown
human beings. These stages have been classified by the Indian sages of a scientific outlook
in ten orders, viz. (1) the invertebrate, (2) testaceous or shelly, (3) vertebrate, (4) erectly
vertebrate (as in the combined form of man and beast), (5) mannikin (dwarf), (6) barbaric,
(7) civilised, (8) wise, (9) ultra-wise, (10) destructive. These are the historical stages of
jives. According to the gradation of these stages as indications of evolution of the serving
mood of the jiva soul, there are manifested the ten Incarnations of God, viz. Matsya (fish),
Kurma (Turtle), Varaha (boar), Nrsimha (man-lion), Vamana (dwarf), Parasurama, Rama,
Krishna, Buddha and Kalki.