Understanding VCT's sequence of progressive development?

I don't have any examples to give, but I can try to explain it according to my adhikara. The underlying consideration is this: raganuga-bhakti is not simply a 'practice' or 'exercise'. It is the actual transformation from your temporary illusory material identity to your eternal spiritual identity, as defined initially by your mentally conceived siddha-deha and its ekadasa-bhavas. This is what is being described by Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura in that reference from Madhurya-kadambini.

Your siddha-deha is not just your spiritual 'body' - it is your complete 'identity' - which is eventually awarded to you by Krsna at the stage of bhava - the transcendental platform (brahma-bhuta), ie: svarupa-siddhi. At the stage of bhava the manifestation is fully transcendental but it is not entirely complete, because bhava is just the seed of prema, or the ray of the sun of prema. There is more development necessary from the stage of bhava, ie: the manifestation of your sthayi-bhava - your eternal emotional core mood or disposition - which is the required basis for developing the first stages of prema and subsequently becoming qualified to experience rasa within the context of Vraja lila. These developments take place while we are still embodied and they are required to prepare and qualify us to enter bhauma-lila where the final perfection of our prema and our full self-conception (abhimana) as a Vraja-vasi take place.

Understanding these details, we can thus see that the prior stages leading up to bhava are part of the initial developmental phases, ie: the beginning of the transformation from our material identity to our spiritual identity and its full manifestation. Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura is describing how your material identity becomes less and less prominent as your consciousness becomes more and more absorbed in your desired spiritual identity. This is the transformation that takes place through the sadhana and bhajana of raganuga-bhakti. It takes time for this knowledge to be fully comprehended and assimilated, what to speak of implementing it in one's heart and mind and intelligence.

If you understand these details conceptually as I have described, I think the meaning of these specific terms will be more easily grasped in essence, which will yield a better understanding than trying to define them in specific terms.