Dinshah's Star of David Attuned Spectrum
with Tertiary Colors in Center Hexagon
Graphics © 2004 by Ann K Elliott

Red/Green/Violet are Dinshah's Light (Subtractive) Primaries. His Violet, somewhat confusing in name, was so called because of this color's frequency position at the far, Ultra-Violet end of the Spectrum. In this system of twelve color frequencies, all derive from his Primaries which he formulated and proved with a mathematical precision that marked his genius.

A native of India, Dinshah lectured in America and Europe in the late 19th Century at which time he met Edison and Tesla and was dubbed by the New York Times "the Parsee Edison." Returning to India he continued research and teaching in the fields of mathematics, chemistry, physics and medicine, all of which interests merged into his Spectro-Chrome system which he utilized to "normalize" the balance of energies by which health and well-being is restored and maintained.

There is no doubt that Dinshah (as he was known) was  years ahead of his time in his knowledge light and color, as well as his understanding of frequency as the basis of all that exists--in realms seen and unseen. Certainly well before the advent of television, and electronic's implementation of the light spectrum, he had discovered that when a beam of light was  passed through a slide of red stained glass sandwiched with one of green glass that the beam thrown was yellow. Similarly, when passed through Green and Violet slides, the beam was his Blue; and when through Violet and Red, the resulting beam was what he called Magenta. Since staining glass was more of a matter of art and aesthetics, Dinshah spent a great deal of time, energy and resources obtaining the exact three colors from which the others in his spectrum could be propagated. His way of proof was that when the three exact color frequencies were sandwiched the beam they cast was invisible or white light. If you would like to prove this for your self, go into your printer's RGB color settings and set each of these three printing ink values at 255 and you will observe the same thing Dinshah did with his color slides and kerosene lantern.

Another attribute of his spectrum is its "balanced" attunement" to 30° of separation. Imagine a circle enclosing the above Star of David color wheel, with the points of the ascending triangle 120° degrees apart; observe next how the Secondary colors forming the points of the descending triangle, further divide the circumference into 60° degrees; and finally how the Tertiary colors, extending out from their center hexagonal positions, divide the circle into 12 segments of 30°each.

The mathematical precision of this system assigns 1 whole unit to each of the Red/Green/Violet Primaries. For the Yellow/Blue/Magenta Secondaries the formula is 1/2 of the Primaries on either side. Thus Yellow is 1/2 Red and 1/2 Green.  Dinshah's Blue (more commonly called Cerulean)  is 1/2 Green and 1/2 Violet (Blue in the RGB system). Magenta, Dinshah's third Secondary, is 1/2 half Violet and 1/2 Red.

The Six Tertiaries are next mathematically formulated as 1/2 of the colors on either side of them: Orange being 1/2 Red and 1/2 Yellow. However, since Yellow is 1/2 Red and 1/2 Green, Orange is more essentially 3/4 Red and 1/4 Green. By this same precision, Lemon is 1/4 Red and 3/4 Green; Turquoise 1/4 Violet and 3/4 Green; Indigo 3/4 Violet and 1/4 Green; Purple, for a more complicated reason related to its exact color frequency is 1/2 Violet, 1/4 Red and 1/4 Green; and for a similar reason Scarlet is 1/2 Red,  1/4 Violet and 1/4 green.

The 12 colors, as they appear above in the Star of David arrangement, were formulated as described for printing from my computer through my printer. Since there is no standardization of colors as they appear on different computer screens or as ink formulas for different printers, what you are seeing may not be what I see. Moreover, what I see on my screen is not what appears on paper or transparency when run through my printer. I therefore can only hope they are approximating Dinshah's beautiful and perfectly balanced spectrum. If you are or would like to become a serious student of this system, then I would recommend that you obtain Darius Dinshah's book, Let There Be Light, from the Dinshah Health Society, which book contains an accurate color wheel which can be used as a guide or measure for matching his attuned color frequencies. As for the science behind the Spectro-Chrome theory, this is contained in full in Spectro-Chrome Metry Encyclopedia, a volume outlining his wholistic application of color in restoring balance and well-being on physical, mental and emotional levels.

By way of an advanced Mandala Maker, the patterns below may be printed in each of the 12 colors. For this step PDF files are provided for printing on 8 1/2" by 11" paper, the shapes may then be cut out and assembled in an array of Infinite Possibilities.

The ancient mandala pattern applied here is known as the Sacred Gnomon and is described below.

Primary Red

Primary Green

Primary Violet

Secondary Yellow

Secondary Blue

Secondary Magenta

Tertiary Orange

Tertiary Lemon

Tertiary Turquoise

Tertiary Indigo

Tertiary Purple

Tertiary Scarlet