Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 8:29 am
Is that from the Great Declaration?
So yes, it is from the Great Declaration (it would help if you would source your material as soon as you use it to make a claim). But Simon is quoted by Hippolytus as referring specifically to Isaiah 5.7 in the course of likening his system of knowledge to a fruitful tree. I honestly do not see what connection you are trying to draw here with Mark 8.22-26.
I think you are missing the context of this healing entirely and trying to find it elsewhere than in the text itself. The miracle is not about God and the demiurge; it is, if anything, about God and Jesus, since the Son is demonstrated to have creative powers just like his Father. And the gradualness of the cure is not about an allegedly clumsy creation; it is, if anything, about the disciples' lack of understanding:
Mark 8.14-21: 14 And they had forgotten to take bread, and did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them. 15 And He was giving orders to them, saying, “Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” 16 They began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread. 17 And Jesus, aware of this, says to them, “Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet see or understand? Do you have a hardened heart? 18 Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember, 19 when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?” They say to Him, “Twelve.” 20 “When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” And they say to Him, “Seven.” 21 And He was saying to them, “Do you not yet understand?”
This is the immediate context of the healing of the blind man. It has nothing to do with the demiurge. It is all about who and what Jesus is, and about the disciples' inability to grasp it as of yet.