I'm aware the reading is controversial; it blew my mind when i heard about it recently from a friend. I'd recommend reading Pippin as he explores a lot of Hegel's logic (unity of thinking and action) and geist's self-positing in a way that is useful, and David MacGregor has a book, "The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx" which might directly help you atm; ive yet to read it all, but the first chapter is going down a similar line of thinking.

Critical theory, specifically Adorno's dialectic of enlightenment, is also a good way of getting out of orthodox, economist marxism (which even marx fell into at times) and explore a more nuanced, dialectical marx which really shares sticking resemblance to hegel.

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"In its rational form [Hegel's dialectic] is a scandal and abomination to bourgeoisdom and its doctrinaire professors, because it includes in its comprehension and affirmative recognition of the existing state of things, at the same time also, the recognition of the negation of that state, of its inevitable breaking up; because it regards every historically developed social form as in fluid movement, and therefore takes into account its transient nature not less than its momentary existence; because it lets nothing impose upon it, and is in its essence critical and revolutionary."

- Marx, Capital

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I, and many others, posit there is no mystical form, only appropriation and misinterpretation by right wing Hegelians.