As it disapproved that the group of Antoine turned away from Spiritism, journals from Spiritist circles criticized Antoinism in its beginnings, and the president of the Belgian Federation of Spiritist (Fédération spirite de Belgique) Chevalier Clement Saint-Marcq considered the religion as one of the "parasitic stems came on the healthy and strong tree of Spiritism". From a philosophical standpoint, Antoinism was criticized by René Guénon in an entire chapter of his 1923 book "The Spiritist Fallacy" ("L'Erreur spirite"), noting, to his point of view, "the nullity of [Antoine's] "teachings" which are only a vague mixture of spiritualist theories and Protestant "moralism"". As for Theosophists, they displayed a strong fellow feeling to Antoinism in their journals.