Raymond Antoine Bernard (19 May 1923 – 10 January 2006) was a French esotericist, Rosicrucian, and freemason. Bernard was a member or founder of a number of different esoteric orders across decades. He was the grand master of French AMORC, a large Rosicrucian order, in Francophone countries. As part of AMORC, he founded the neo-Templar order the Renewed Order of the Temple with Julien Origas. Bernard left that order a few years later and gave leadership of it over to Origas.

Bernard left AMORC under uncertain circumstances in 1977 and was replaced in his position as grand master by his son, Christian Bernard. After leaving AMORC, Bernard founded the esoteric orders OSTI and CIRCES. As part of CIRCES, he was a personal advisor or friend to the president of Cameroon, Paul Biya. His connection to Biya attracted attention and controversy over the large financial donations Biya made to him and his orders, though their precise relationship is unclear. He was particularly active in spreading Rosicrucianism in Africa, and wrote several allegorical works about esotericism topics.

Raymond Antoine Bernard was born in Bourg-d’Oisans, Isère on 19 May 1923. He was raised in a Catholic family who had origins in Dauphiné. Bernard attended secondary school in Grenoble. He studied law at a school in Grenoble, though his studies were interrupted by World War II. He married Yvonne Noyrey in Bourg-d'Oisans on 19 February 1951. Their son Christian Bernard was born in November of that year.

In 1941, he was introduced to esotericism by an English Rosicrucian by the name of Edith Lynn, and a few years later he came into contact with Jeanne Guesdon, as well as Ralph M. Lewis, both high ranking AMORC figures. In 1952 he was admitted to AMORC's inner knighthood, and Lewis appointed him an administrator of the organization in 1965; Lewis then appointed him as AMORC's grand master in Francophone countries, a post he held from 1959 to 1977. He served many positions in the organization, structuring it in Francophone nations (especially African ones). Beginning in 1956 he was the grand master and "Supreme Legate of the Imperator".

Due to the resulting success, he acquired a château for AMORC in 1969, which became the headquarters of the Francophone Grand Lodge in 1973. In the 1950s, he was also involved in Italian Freemasonry, and joined the French Grande Lodge nationale française Opéra, where he achieved the three symbolic grades given out by the organization. At this time, he was initiated into the Ordre martiniste traditionnel (OMT), which Lewis gave him the responsibility to re-establish in France; he did this alongside AMORC, though given the reputation OMT had in the United States this was made difficult. In 1963, Raymond Bernard met with Anton Leuprecht, supreme head of the Autonomous Grand Priories of the OSMTJ (those who did not follow Antonio Fontes), and received a personal document recognizing him.

In 1970, he founded the Renewed Order of the Temple (ORT) of which he became the secret grand master until 1972. The group was founded at the suggestion of Julien Origas, also a member of AMORC, to which Bernard enthusiastically agreed. The creation of this group was supposedly validated by a "White Cardinal" apparition that had appeared to Bernard in Rome, who initiated him as a Templar. This was published in a 1969 book by Bernard. Bernard later admitted that this apparition was purely fictional, along with several other of his claimed mystical sightings, but said all were based on "deeply moving personal mystical experiences". He left this group entirely in the following years, and it was then led by Origas.

Sources are unclear on the circumstances under which Bernard left AMORC. Some say he resigned as grand master in 1977, or that he had to step down. Serge Toussaint, a future grand master of French AMORC, declared in 2014 that he had actually been expelled, and that AMORC had nothing to do with any of his later endeavors. He was replaced as grand master and legate by his son Christian Bernard. Bernard would later become Imperator (leader) of AMORC as a whole.

After Bernard resigned as grand master of French AMORC, he founded several other Rosicrucian orders. He fully resigned from AMORC in 1987, after which he founded the Centre international de recherches et d'études spirituelles (CIRCES, founded 1988, later renamed Comité d'Initiatives et de réalisations caritatives et sociales) which aimed to continue Templar ideals but did not claim a direct lineage from the original Templars.