Leonard, R. Cedric

Published June 9, 2010

R. Cedric Leonard (1934-2022) was from Oklahoma and has worked as an electronic technician, initially in the U.S. Navy and later in private industry, from which he retired in 1990. He studied Comparative Religion, Sanskrit and Classical Greek and has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma. He is also self-taught in Egyptian, Canaanite and Phoenician inscriptions. He has also speculated on the possibility of the Phoenician alphabet having its origins in Atlantis and the possibility of a connection with the Glozel Tablets^(c).

His Sanskrit studies led him to investigate stories of the Vimanas or ancient Hindu flying machines. He has produced several books^[¹³⁰^][¹³¹^]and scientific papers on the subject of Atlantis and ancient India. He has also written on the existence of UFOs in ancient Egypt^(d), Mesopotamia^(h) and the Bible^[132], particularly the Book of Ezekiel^(e). He has also produced a paper^(f) about archaeological mysteries in general.

However, in his 1979 book, Quest for Atlantis^[0130], Leonard has suggested that the Kings of Atlantis were human-alien hybrids and that humans are the result of alien genetic experiments!!

He maintained a very interesting Atlantis website⁽^a⁾, which covered a range of subjects including connections between Cro-Magnon Man and ancient Egypt with Atlantis.

He located Atlantis along The Mid-Atlantic Ridge and offered geological, mythological, linguistic as well as paleontological evidence to support this idea and for its destruction following worldwide catastrophes around 10,000 BC. He also wrote a paper^(g) on the asteroid/comet impact around the same time, which created the Carolina Bays and its possible connection with the destruction of Atlantis. This encounter was brought to the notice of a wider audience by Richard Firestone and his colleagues in their book, The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes^[⁰¹¹⁰^].

Before retirement, Leonard supported Posnansky‘s early date for Tiwanaku citing a number of astronomers who endorsed his chronology. “Between 1927 and 1930 Prof. Posnansky’s conclusions were studied intensively by a number of authorities. Dr. Hans Ludendorff (Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Potsdam), Friedrich Becker of the Specula Vaticana, Prof. Arnold Kohlschutter (astronomer at Bonn University), and Rolf Müller (astronomer of the Institute of Astrophysics at Potsdam) verified the accuracy of Posnansky’s calculations and vouched for the reliability of his conclusions.

The conventional practice of dating Tiahuanacu as beginning c. 200 A.D. and collapsing c. 1000 A.D. started with Wendell Bennett’s excavations, which turned up numerous examples of pottery, small statues and other artifacts. Since it is common for later arrivals to be awed by massive ruins (sometimes attributing their origin to supernatural beings, thus replicating the “sacred” images on their own pottery and textiles), I think it is a mistake to fuse the two cultures into one, implying that the later arrivals were the same people who built the original ruins. I believe Bennett and his successors are all guilty of such an error” ⁽ⁱ⁾.

Leonard recognised that his belief in prehistoric flying machines may lead some readers to dismiss his carefully thought-out theory on Atlantis, but he is adamant that both existed. Nevertheless, it is fair to say that Leonard is one of the few writers on the subject who has produced original material to support the idea of Atlantis’ existence.

Some of Leonard’s work can be found plagiarised on the Internet, most blatantly by the artist, Charles Alexander Moffat⁽^b⁾.

I have only just discovered that Leonard died on Jan 17, 2022.

>A number of his articles are now available at a new address^(j⁾.<

⁽^a⁾See: https://web.archive.org/web/20161212202011/https://www.atlantisquest.com/index.html

^b⁾Atlantis Forgotten – The Search for Atlantis and Eden – The Religion eZine (archive.org)

^(c) https://web.archive.org/web/20201001074421/http://s8int.com/articles/260/19/sophis26.html

^(e) See: https://pathwaytoascension.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/the-wheels-of-ezekiel-was-it-a-space-ship-r-cedric-leonard-ph-d/

^(f) https://nexusilluminati.blogspot.ie/2011/06/prehistoric-mysteries-perspective-on.html

^(g) See: https://web.archive.org/web/20170113112302/https://www.atlantisquest.com/Asteroid.html

^(h) See: Archive 2881

⁽ⁱ⁾ Tiahuanacu, The Mysterious City (archive.org)

^(j)https://atlantisquestscience.wordpress.com/