You can indeed, but it only gives you so much to play with, and it also affects the tone. You may get the neck volume to drop to match the bridge output, but then have a very uninteresting sound from it compared to when the pickup was a lot nearer the strings. Or it may be fine. You just don't know until you try it.

One further option if the pickups are 4-wire ones, is to wire the neck in parallel, rather than series. This will give a lower output and a less thick sound. But again, try the standard configuration first. If you are always going to play with a lot of distortion, you really won't notice any volume difference between the two pickups. It's only when playing clean that you'll really notice the difference.

But with both pickups measuring around a 12.5k DCR, they aren't going to do 'clean' that well without turning the guitar volume down. The high output will probably start to drive the front end of even the cleanest clean amp. Fitting a treble bleed circuit might be a good idea if you do want to get some clean sounds from the guitar.