WHAT LED THE INCAS TO BE A GREAT EMPIRE.

The Inca Empire, at the height of its existence, was the largest nation on Earth and remains the largest Andean State to have ever existed in the Western Hemisphere. The Inca system were able to control an area almost 3000 miles in extent, stretching from Colombia in the North to deep South into what is now Chile along the High Mountains  of the Andes, and from Argentina in the East to the Pacific ocean in the West. The Empire reached a stunning level of achievement in the design of its statecraft and lasted as long as they were able to unify all manpower and maintain an careful equilibrium between themselves and their environment and with the establishment of a system of exchange among neighboring communities and cultures.
The magnificent society was made up of more than 10 million subjects. Cuzco, which emerged as the richest city in the New World, was the centre of their world, the home of its leaders. The riches gathered in the city of Cuzco alone, were incredible. Therein were many palaces that belonged to the living Inca and to the dead ones, each containing all the treasures obtained in life. The living Inca did not touch the sacred estate of his predecessor.
They believed in the existence of parallel dimensions all interrelated. Within these dimensions, wars had different outcomes since these different levels of existence were governed by different types of laws and their operational system were in a deeper level than the one we know.
The Incas were able to define the basic divisions of the universe, and their main purpose as a human beings was to maintain these divisions in harmony establishing means of exchange of energies between them.
According to their believe, the universe is being held in balance by the two opposing forces of existence and non-existence. Existence symbolizes the struggle for the stability of matter, while non-existence exists for the disintegration of that same matter.
The Inca's commandments were: -search for the truth; -work hard; -and respect every form of life.
Searching for the truth dealt with the inner attitude of the heart. It contained the secrets of life and had to be found within the soul. It was guided by leaders who went in a journey of so many tests and through it achieved the knowledge and understanding the wisdom of the old. They were custodians of the very deep truth about the nature of life, the cosmic interrelation and the secrets of the universe.
The cult of the ancestors was extremely important in Inca belief because they were the bridge of communication between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Deceased rulers were mummified and then treated as intermediaries with the world of their gods. The mummies were presented in public during religious festivals, offered food and gifts, and consulted important matters by special oracles.
Each new Inca practiced the laws of reciprocity and verticality in order to secure his own legacy and place for eternity. The Inca State provided roads and irrigation projects and hard to get goods. Maize, for example, was usually grown in a well irrigated land with a state sponsored irrigation project to help to its cultivation and was very important as a ritual crop.
The Inca aqueducts were used to increase arable land and provide drinking water and baths to the population. Due to the scarcity in the Andean region, advanced water management allowed the Inca to thrive and expand along much the Pacific coast of South America. Many structures, some of which survive today, show the advanced hydraulic and civil engineering capabilities of the Inca.
Throughout the empire, a complex system of roads was constructed with bridge and causeways when needed. Along these roads, way stations or tambos were placed about a day's walk apart to serve as inns, store houses, and supply centers for Inca armies on the move. Tambos also served as relay points for the system of runners who carried messages throughout the empire. The Inca maintained over 10,000 tambos.
Metals, especially gold and silver, were treated as holy metals. They believed that gold had the special quality to hold and transmit solar energy.
Cuzco was chosen to be the receptive city of this solar energy through the Temple of the Sun. The temple had a garden made of pure gold. Everything in this garden was made of solid gold: trees, plants, flowers, rocks, butterflies. The symbolism of this garden was very important since it was the heart of Inti, the Sun God. The fame of Cuzco as the "Golden City" was tremendous.
To the people, gold was not important as a possession. Their belief was centered in "being human" with the heart of a human in connection with the heart of Inti, the Sun God. Having earthly possessions as humans meant to them like robbing nature from its natural energy captured or reflected in their soils. Everything had a purpose of existence, their job was to maintain its balance.
When the Spaniards arrived, gold was the treasure they wanted the most and they developed such level of greed that they readily killed almost the whole empire for the sake of it.
Europeans' world that was in a complete chaos at the time when the Inca Empire flourished. Their crisis was in their spiritual and moral values. People were totally seduced by their own pride and their own destructive nature. They only saw in the Incas Empire a strange world, a dark world for them, but, in reality, it was the reflection of their limited consciousness, the dark world was in them.

THE INCA BATHS.

The Inca Baths are a set of natural hot springs located in the Department of Cajamarca in the North Andean zone of Peru at 2667 meters above sea level. It is composed by several gardens and pools.
The pool used by the Inca is 4 meters length, 4 meters wide, and 1.7 meters depth. The Incas used it for cleansing the negative energies absorbed during battles, relaxing and for recreational purposes.
Incas believed that the natural hot water had a very powerful energy that was able to wash away any unwanted energy in conjunction with the solar sun rays that burned off negative lines of energy surrounding them.
They were very familiar with the understanding of the electromagnetic field that surrounded every organism and objects in the universe. They also knew that the human body is a collection of electro-magnetic energies of varying densities that permeate through and emit or exit from the physical body.
They also were aware about the information sent from the environment through the energy field when it was weakening its power and sensed disastrous events.
The Incas constructed several structures around the hot springs to enjoy them when they were performing the cleansing of their physical bodies accompanied with the relaxing view of the scenery  surrounding the place.
The quechua name to the site is "Inti Puquio" that means "Spring of the Sun" or "Divine Spring."Also it used to be called "Nina Yaqu" meaning "Fire Water" and "Pultumarca" meaning "Hot Place," the name of the town that lodges it.
The waters contain a great variety of minerals, such as sodium, potassium, lithium, strontium, calcium, iron, magnesium, and silica. They come from two different sources named "The Small Jars (los perolitos)" and "The Gluton" (el tragadero). The steaming liquid emerges from the volcanic rock of the subsoil, reaching temperatures between 65*C (149*F) and 75*C (167*F). The thermal waters are now famous because they possess therapeutic properties for treatment of bone and nervous disorders, as well as bronchial and rheumatic diseases.