It seems that Steiner's Devachan or "Spiritland" corresponds at least in part to the Sufi's Malakut or World of Symbols.  In both cases we have the immaterial souls and the images, forms, and archetypes of phenomena of the physical world

So, just as with the Theosophist's astral plane, which is the contemporary Western occult equivalent to the Ishraqi and Sufi Barzakh or Mithal - the Intermediate World between matter and psyche, "where bodies are spiritualised and spirits corporalised" - in the same way the spiritual worlds and hierarchies of Steiner's Anthroposophy is the twentieth century equivalent not only to the Noeric Cosmos of the Platonists and Neoplatonists (his immediate source of inspiration), but also to the Malakut or World of Symbols of the Sufis, and the Lords of Species of Ishraqism..

An occult cosmology is thus clearly defined.  To put this all together in tabular form:

The Kabbalistic equivalence is not quite so clear, but Metatron, as the revealed aspect of the Godhead, would perhaps be equivalent to Steiner's Cosmic Christ.  Beriah (the World of Archangels) could be equated with the higher aspect of the world of Malakut, or in other words Steiner's two higher spiritual hierarchies, and Yetzirah (the World of Angels) Devachan, and Asiyah with the lower part of the "Soul" world and the Physical.
 
 

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