When reading Hegel please don't fall into the atheist trap. You mentioned the inference toward the existence of God. It seems that most philosophical critiques attempt to erase the possibility of God without understanding (purposely or otherwise) that almost all of the people they critique were believers. For example Malthus, Essay on Population: Malthus was a minister and believed that we all wouldn't perish from hunger because of God's innate intervention, a fact lost on the atheistic Malthusians. My philosophical mentor was George Stengren who wrote a marvelous book on Hegel's influence on Kierkegaard who was Catholic despite being an Existentialist. I enjoyed your perspective.