Hegel's mysticism and Nature of Geist.

G.W.Hegel the great German idealist who once dominated the academic philosophy of europe has been vigorously opposed since the arrival of analytical philosophy.His abstract and obscure philosophy may not attract the modern day student of philosophy.But i as one realy appreciate Hegel's mystical doctrine that was radically modified by young hegelians and then Marx himself.
Everybody is aware of Hegel;s dialectic method and how it works to reach absolute.Hegels philosophy in a nutshell can be described as 'Infinite becoming finite and then again becoming infinite through self evolving synthesis'.
Hegel described the nature of Geist in his famous and least obscure work called 'Philosophy of History'.He says that to understand the essence of something one needs to look for its opposite,the opposite of spirit is matter.The essence of matter is Gravity,so the essence of spirit is freedom.Today his philosophy appears as a 'mystical poetry' rather than formal philosophy.