This essay will try to demonstrate that, in many of the narrations and essays written by Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), the activities of reading and book classification represent the access to an intuition of the sacred, and even further, a communion with such dimension. In other words, what the specialized critic has seen as a «mystical» manifestation within his work (López-Baralt, 2019; Gamerro, 2006; Adur, 2014; and others) would be a specific literary motive that allows to articulate a vast portion of his aesthetic proposal, which comprises topics like the extrasensorial experience, the glimpse of infinite, or the disolution of ‘I’. It is known that, while mystical experiences, due to their divine nature, can happen unexpectedly and as a part of the grace; the constant practice and repetition of a given activity, which leads to asceticism, can also be an important pathway. In other words, for Borges, it is a special type of reading, as well as the organization of said reading, which would lead their characters to intuition. On the other hand, this work will address some of the essential worries that arise when reuniting literature and mysticism: How to communicate such an experience? How can the particular individual that has been the receiver of the mysterious revelation find a system to reveal it? And the answer is that, at the time of writing (especially regarding narrative and essay), Borges will not abandon his librarian activity