Allegro argued that the word Essenes signified healers. They had inherited a lore of healing with plants and stones that had been passed down from the fallen angels that arrived on Mount Hermon mentioned in the Book of Enoch. He presumed their establishment of Qumran complex by the Dead Sea was related to the interpretation and anticipation of a prophecy about the Teacher of Righteousness, a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand () who was to somehow create lifegiving waters to flow into the Dead Sea from a temple in some northern location ().