This principle is called merely physical intelligence in the
"Fragments." I do not know what is really meant by this expression. It
may be taken to mean that intelligence which exists in a very low state
of development in the lower animals. Mind may exist in different stages
of development, from the very lowest forms of organic life, where the
signs of its existence or operation can hardly be distinctly realized,
up to man, in whom it reaches its highest state of development.
In fact, from the first appearance of life* up to Tureeya Avastha, or
the state of Nirvana, the progress is, as it were, continuous.
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* In the Aryan doctrine, which blends Brahmam, Sakti, and Prakriti in
one, it is the fourth principle then, in the Buddhist esotericisms the
second in combination with the first.
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We ascend from that principle up to the seventh by almost imperceptible
gradations. But four stages are recognized in the progress where the
change is of a peculiar kind, and is such as to arrest an observer's
attention. These four stages are as follows:--
(1) Where life (fourth principle) makes its appearance.
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