The purpose of the paper is development of a conceptual model for the representation of knowledge as an activeintellectual substance and, on this basis, study of metaphysics of knowledge transformation process being produced both individuallyand collectively in the practice of organizations. The first principle of knowledge engineering, as Edward Albert Feigenbaum noted,says that the power in solving problems that an intellectual subject (person or machine) manifests in the process of activity dependsprimarily on its knowledge base, and only secondly on the methods of inference used. Strength is hidden in knowledge. The processof producing knowledge is permanent and does not depend on whether an individual is going to use this knowledge or not.Knowledge constantly produces new knowledge regardless of the owner's desire. Besides that, knowledge can’t arise from nothing,but always – from some knowledge obtained earlier. As well as the intelligence, knowledge is an emergent instance arising from thecollective interaction of a lot of intellectual atomic elements of knowledge (knowledge quanta). Idiosyncrasy of this interaction isexpressed precisely in the creation of new knowledge.