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This article will analyze the project of La Fable mystique as a historian’s approach. Looking upon it in this way, we hope to bring out the singular style of Michel de Certeau. Thirty years after the publication of the first volume, La Fable mystique II continues along its path : the same intuitions are reinforced, already announced contents are elaborated. Taking into account the two volumes, this article highlights the central preoccupation of Michel de Certeau, that of not separating research into mysticism from the present of those who study it. He thus seeks to grasp the relation established between historians, their objects of study and their present. Mysticism, an ephemeral science in the 17th and 18th centuries, strange historical object that ties experience to language, folds and unfolds under the pen of Michel de Certeau. It ends up no longer having a place of its own, set in advance within a defined literary perimeter. Mystical discourse is intimately linked to the way of acting on the part of its bearer. In the final analysis, mysticism operates in individual bo-dies, in institutions and in various fields of knowledge and it is only in this way that the effects of mysticism can be described by the historian. Once defined and simultaneously disenclaved as a field, mysticism unceasingly resonates in our present. And its history must continue to be written.