Unfortunately no, doing so would still end up installing beta 14 (but with the beta 13 skeleton, which is mostly identical)
One solution is to do the following:
After those steps, you are at the same place you would have been after the create-project command.
When you want to update to beta 14 later, you need to edit composer.json and replace "flarum/core": "0.1.0-beta.13" with "flarum/core": "^0.1.0", then follow the official upgrade guide.
