I'm sorry, but this notion of spirit placing itself in nature so that it may emerge later out of nature is so nonsensical that I could not imagine any great philosopher like Hegel to have anything to do with it. If spirit places itself in nature then it is either because it is already in possession of itself and therefore having its emergence out of nature to be a redundancy precisely regarding any production of content with its self-return; or spirit was not fully aware of itself and so did not actually knew how it would emerge out of its plunging into nature. Assuming as you do that the Spirit is God then either God is being redundant or God was not fully constituted from eternity as traditional theology argues but actually developed. A God that developed, that was not integral ad eternum is an idea that you have not accepted and so it only leaves a God that acts without producing anything - but redundancy.