A trace of all faulty deeds remains, even after their repair, in order to reveal perfection.
The principle of registration: every faulty deed leaves a trace in the cosmic register, even after the deed is repaired. The registration is for the sake of the perfection that the cycle's end will reveal.
Op. 78 opens the Concealed Government unit (Op. 78–84) with the foundational principle. The cosmic government has a concealed layer (in addition to the revealed operational layer of the Partzufim). This layer holds the registration of all cosmic events — including faulty deeds even after repair. The chapter establishes the principle that anchors everything in the seven-chapter unit.
Registration (the cosmic-operational holding of every event) is what the concealed government does. Every deed — good, faulty, repaired — is recorded. The recording is not for surveillance or punishment per se; it is for the sake of perfection. The eventual revelation of cosmic perfection will require a complete record of what happened, so that the contrast between the cycle's middle phase (with its evil and repair) and the cycle's end (with its revealed unity) is fully visible.
The striking claim: a trace remains even after repair. Repair does not erase the original deed; it neutralises its operational consequence while preserving the cosmic record. This is structurally important. If repair erased the deed entirely, the cosmic-historical fact of human service would be erased with it — and the bestowal that the cycle's end produces would be a bestowal on creatures who, retrospectively, never had to earn it. That would be the bread-of-shame doctrine violated. By preserving the record, the cycle's end reveals the bestowal as something earned.