"The only way in which one can think that the Platonists are otherworldly is if you think that the world of appearances is the true world, 

It is our truest nature to be engaged in intellectual contemplation of the cause of this world, because as Proclus tells us the Forms are Causes. This intellectual contemplation is not opposed to the senses, because it is the senses superior and hence they cannot be opposed, it is opposed to attachment to falsity...To ascend to the higher levels for a human requires perfection at the lower levels, hence the hierarchies of virtues. The higher encompasses the lower, it does not exclude it. The realm of forms is not opposed to the realm of becoming, it encompasses it. Becoming alone is false, untrue, and opposed to Truth, but subordinate to the Truth it is good and beautiful. 

This finite world for the Platonists is the shine of the diamond that is the Form of Good, it is the ripples upon the infinite sea of beauty, we are those ripples we are that shine, and we are good. But only when taken to be reflective of this higher perfection, and not perfect through ourselves. This is how we achieve liberation for the Platonists, through understanding that this world is only perfect through another, we can embrace change, hope and possibility''.