Let There Be Light: Practical Manual for Spectro-Chrome Therapy

2012 (11th) edition training manual, authored and published by the Dinshah Health Society (the practitioner's own nonprofit successor organization), full text verified by direct fetch of the Internet Archive-hosted transcription on 2026-08-13. This is a current_first_party / subject's-own-material source, used only for facts the Society's own text states about its own history and current operations, not for any independent efficacy assessment. Its Dinshah P. Ghadiali and Spectro-Chrome chapter-one organizational history states, in its own year-by-year account: Ghadiali announced Spectro-Chrome's completed research and delivered its first lecture in April 1920; the Spectro-Chrome Institute was established in New York City in 1920; he acquired a 23-acre Malaga, N.J. property in 1924 that became the Institute headquarters; the Spectro-Chrome Metry Encyclopedia was written in 1933; he ran for Governor of New Jersey as an independent candidate in 1937 and placed next-to-last; in Buffalo in 1931 he defended and won a grand-larceny charge that his device had no effect on disease, with lay and medical witnesses testifying for him; in an early Camden lawsuit he defeated a deportation attempt by documenting he was not subject to a race-based immigration exclusion, 17 years after his 1917 naturalization; in 1941 he dissolved the original Spectro-Chrome Institute and chartered the nonprofit Dinshah Spectro-Chrome Institute, whose mail activities were hampered by a U.S. Post Office administrative fraud-order directing postmasters to return mail marked "FRAUDULENT, Mail to this address returned" -- an order the text says "stands to this day"; a January 2, 1945 fire destroyed the Institute's main building, equipment, and records, which hampered his defense in a Brooklyn lawsuit and in the Camden litigation of 1947-48; a six-week 1947 federal trial in Camden, N.J. resulted in a $20,000 total fine and five years' probation on the stipulation that he dissolve the Institute and dissociate himself from any form of promotion of Spectro-Chrome, and an order to surrender for destruction all his Spectro-Chrome-related books, valued at up to $250,000 in 1948 dollars, keeping only one personal set; after his 1953 probation ended he organized the nonprofit Visible Spectrum Research Institute, selling renamed Visible Spectrum Projectors carrying a warning that, per accepted medical opinion, the Projectors had no curative or therapeutic value; in 1958 the FDA obtained a permanent injunction against that Institute barring interstate shipment of Color Projectors and related books as the same misbranded articles covered by the 1947 judgment (res judicata) -- the text states "The injunction still stands"; Ghadiali died April 30, 1966; his sons continued operating the Institute under the standing injunction until, at their 1975 annual convention, the Trustees decided the injunction was too great a handicap to continue under and dissolved the Visible Spectrum Research Institute; the Dinshah Health Society was registered as a nonprofit corporation on November 15, 1975 to promulgate lesser-known methods of restoring and maintaining health; and this 2012 edition of the training manual states that FDA regulations "prevent us from selling Spectro-Chrome Color projectors" because they have been held to be medical devices (the Society currently sells a later, 13th edition, per dinshahhealth-org-website-2026; that later edition's text was not independently checked for this specific statement).